- lip reading
- speech reading the understanding of speech through observation of the movement of the lips of the speaker. Called also visual hearing.
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lip reading
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Lip reading — Lip reading, also known as lipreading, speech reading, or speechreading, is a technique of understanding speech by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face and tongue with information provided by the context, language, and any… … Wikipedia
lip-reading — lipˈ readˈing noun Gathering what a person says by watching the movement of his or her lips • • • Main Entry: ↑lip * * * lip reading noun [uncountable] Thesaurus: ear and hearinghyponym general words for the face or its featuressynonym … Useful english dictionary
Lip reading — Lip Lip (l[i^]p), n. [OE. lippe, AS. lippa; akin to D. lip, G. lippe, lefze, OHG. lefs, Dan. l[ae]be, Sw. l[ a]pp, L. labium, labrum. Cf. {Labial}.] 1. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
lip reading — n. the act or skill of recognizing a speaker s words by watching the lip movements: it is taught esp. to the deaf * * * … Universalium
lip reading — n. the act or skill of recognizing a speaker s words by watching the lip movements: it is taught esp. to the deaf … English World dictionary
lip reading — lip reading, the understanding of speech by watching the movements of the speaker s lips; speech reading … Useful english dictionary
lip-reading — /ˈlɪp ridɪŋ/ (say lip reeding) noun the reading or understanding, as by a deaf person, of the movements of another s lips when forming words. –lip reader, noun …
lip reading — understanding what is being said by watching lip movements … English contemporary dictionary
lip-reading — See: lip read … English dictionary
Automated Lip Reading — (ALR) is a software technology developed by speech recognition expert Frank Hubner. A video image of a person talking can be analysed by the software. The shapes made by the lips can be examined and then turned into sounds. The sounds are… … Wikipedia
