ABSTRACT
The rapidly growing field of speech technology is a multi-disciplinary domain whose industrial advances benefit from contributions originating in applied interests in the linguistic sciences, the information sciences and the engineering sciences. The purpose of this article 1 is to offer a brief outline of some of the factors relevant to the concept of speaker type that might be taken into account in the telecommunications industry when considering the choice of voice type to use in any given automated telecommunications application, as an example of an applied interest in phonetics.
