lip reader
Sees spoken words
A lip reader is someone who understands speech by watching the movements of a speaker's mouth rather than hearing the words.
The skill is used by deaf and hard-of-hearing people, though others develop it too—surveillance professionals, for instance.
She's become an expert lip reader since losing her hearing.
- deafUnable to hear
- deaf communityPeople with hearing loss, connected
- hard of hearingReduced auditory ability
- sign languageVisual-gestural communication system
- hearingPerceiving sound waves
mute · silent · mouth · gestures · face to face · speechreading · communication · lost in translation · sounds · words · facial expressions · body language · conversations · listening · understanding · subtle · watching · interpreting
- readersbookworm, bibliophile, book lover, book nerd, bookish
- communicatorsspeaker, explainer, orator, presenter, announcer
- Deaf cultureASL, sign language, signing, signer, name sign
- Biometric Scannersfingerprint scanner, iris scanner, retina scanner, retinal scanner, face scanner
direction of communication accommodation
lip readersign language interpreter
Translates between spoken and gestural communication
lip, reader, lips, read, reads, reading, readable, unreadable, readability