Edgar
Should I use the word "broadcaster", "locutor" or "announcer". Referring to my job At the beginnings of my career I only used my voice to do voice over for radio and TV spots. Nowadays I conduct a podcast show too. To answer the question: "What do you do for a living?" - Can I use the same word for both jobs?
Aug 18, 2017 11:04 AM
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Broadcaster It can be used to describe someone who is well-experienced in the TV and radio industry. He or she usually has multiple talents – scriptwriting, directing, presenting etc "this is an answer to a question on BBC learnibg English". An announcer provides a spoken information about news,weather.....etc or hosts guests to talk about an issue. There is anothet word you can use which is "presenter" it is better to use.
August 18, 2017
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Hi Edgar I agree with Nada. Presenter is a good choice. Or you could say Podcast Presenter, or even Podcaster. For younger people then blogger or vlogger would be understood. Broadcaster would be OK too Don't use Locuter . I don't think that word would ever be used in spoken English nowadays. (in fact I'd go as far as saying many native English speakers would not know what it means :-) ) Hope that helps Gordon
August 18, 2017
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Here in the U.S., "broadcaster" would probably be the best option of those three. But, you may still get lots of questions about what you do. Broadcaster isn't very specific. I tend to associate the word with the news, but that's because I don't work in t.v. or radio and so don't know the lingo. "Locuter" isn't used. I associate "announcer" with someone who only announces short segments. You could probably say "t.v. and radio announcer" for your voice-over work, although where I live people usually call themselves "voice-over artists." "Voice-over artist" may be a good option, but it doesn't include your podcast. I would say that if you're not filling out a form with a one-word answer, you can introduce yourself saying, "I work in tv and radio doing voice-overs and I also have a podcast." Admittedly that's not very succinct, but it's probably the clearest.
August 18, 2017
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