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reading /read·ing/ (rēd´ing) understanding of written or printed symbols representing words. lip reading , speech reading understanding of speech through observation of the speaker's lip movements. lip reading. See speech reading. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Hard of hearing as the result of childhood rubella, the author describes how he lived for 36 years using a combination of powerful hearing aids and lipreading. Background noise, poor lighting, fast conversation, mumbling, chewing gum and more than one person talking simultaneously are all factors that make conversation problematic for someone relying on a bearing aid/ cochlear implant and lipreading. Waibel, "Towards Unrestricted Lipreading," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 14, no. |
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