phonetician
/ˌfoʊnəˈtɪʃən/
noun
- A person who studies or specializes in phonetics, the science of speech sounds.
- The phonetician analyzed how different languages use the same mouth movements.
- She became a phonetician because she was fascinated by the variety of sounds in human speech.
- A phonetician can explain why the 'p' in 'spin' sounds different from the 'p' in 'pin'.