Lip-reading is understanding speech by watching the mouth. Rely on lip-reading.
Only about a third of English sounds are visible on the lips, so the rest is guessed from context. Masks and beards both make lip-reading impossible, which is why they were such a problem.
1nounlip-readingUnderstanding speech by watching the mouth.
“She managed the whole meeting by lip-reading from the end of the table.”
lip-reading is a skill.
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