News tagged with lip reading

Read my lips: Using multiple senses in speech perception (Video)

When someone speaks to you, do you see what they are saying? We tend to think of speech as being something we hear, but recent studies suggest that we use a variety of senses for speech perception - that the brain treats ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Good vibrations: Devices aid the deaf by translating sound waves to vibrations

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0