mouth shape
How lips form
The shape formed by the lips and jaw, especially as it relates to speech, singing, or expression.
Voice coaches and language teachers emphasize correct mouth shape for producing particular sounds: Round your mouth shape for the "oo" vowel.
In animation and video games, mouth shapes are the distinct positions synced to dialogue—typically a set of basic shapes covering all phonemes.
- lipsMouth's outer edges
- poutSulky facial expression
- duck lipsExaggerated pursed-mouth pose
- fish faceExaggerated pouty expression
- smilePleased facial expression
pucker · blow a kiss · grin · oval · round · grimace · smirk · pursed · open · closed · wide · thin · full · expression · resting face · articulation · vowel · vowel sound
- Pinyinpinyin, initials, finals, tones, neutral tone
- speechspeech, speaking, talk, diction, conversation