a method used by deaf people to comprehend spoken words by interpreting movements of the speaker's lips
Also called: speech-reading
Derived forms
lip-reader (ˈlip-ˌreader)
noun
Examples of 'speech-reading' in a sentence
speech-reading
Females had better speech-reading performance than males.
Magnus eAlm, Dawn Marie Behne 2015, 'Do gender differences in audio-visual benefit and visual influence in audio-visualspeech perception emerge with age?', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01014/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A control group also underwent training with visual-only (speech-reading) cues.
Briony eBanks, Emma eGowen, Kevin J Munro, Patti eAdank, Patti eAdank 2015, 'Audiovisual cues benefit recognition of accented speech in noise but not perceptualadaptation', Frontiers in Human Neurosciencehttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00422/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)