Also called: Phonetician
Studies how people produce and perceive speech sounds—used in voice tech, hearing research, and accents.
Records people saying the same words in a sound booth, analyzes the sound waves on a spectrogram, and improves a voice assistant's accent recognition.
Estimate; tech industry pays more.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Doctorate (PhD), about 10 years after high school. PhD in linguistics, speech science, or acoustics.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Linguistics, Speech & Hearing Science, Acoustics.
Growing faster than average (about 5% over 10 years). Estimate.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI speech models are this field's main tool and rival; experiments on how people speak and hear stay human.
Classes: AP Physics, AP Psychology, Music or chorus.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-3099.
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