Read My Lips Trivia Quiz

Answer: Speech reading

Lip reading is a way to communicate by "reading" the lips, face and tongue of the person who is speaking. It is not easy to do and not the most effective way to communicate but with other cues it can aid in communication.

Answer: Dog

Look in a mirror and you'll see that the words "hat", "cat" and "sat" are mouthed the same way. Because of this, facial expressions and body language are also important visual cues to a lip reader.

Answer: True

Lip readers who are really skilled can be used to read the lips of a person on tape. A transcript of what was said is admissable as evidence in a trial.

Answer: Speak really fast

If you speak too fast or too slow a person will not be able to read your lips easily. You should speak as you normally do and use facial expressions.

Answer: False

Lip reading is very difficult to do, and only about 30-40% of our words are readily readable. As stated earlier, many words (e.g pail, bail and mail) look the same when formed by the mouth.

Answer: Two words that look the same on the lips

Alexander Graham Bell coined the word homophene. Examples of a homophene are bat, mat and pat. If you mouth these three words you will see they look the same. All homophones are homophenes; however the reverse is not true.

Answer: All can be problems

Most people speak about 13 sounds a second, but a lip reader usually can only read about 8 words a second, making lip reading very difficult. People from different areas pronounce words differently therefore, the word may look different when the lip reader reads it. Often when a person has a mustache the lip reader can not fully see the lips to read them.

Answer: The situation in which the word is being used

"It's raining" looks the same as "He's writing". However, if the conversation is about weather "He's writing" would not make sense. Therefore, context is very important in understanding lip reading.

Answer: Around 2/5

There are 25 consonant sounds in the American English language. Of these, there are only 9 visual movements that appear different enough to distinguish one from the other.

Answer: 16th century

While there was not much in the way of education for the deaf or hard of hearing back in the 16th century, there were people who learned to lipread. Part of the reason for this was they didn't want people to talk different from the other people in the area.