How many here have learned to read lips?

There’s some lags in YouTube too, especially with Jimmy Kimmel’s videos. I don’t understand why the timing is never right. I think they just uploaded the subs, without syncing it to the audio.

In most media players there is a slide to adjust audio to video (in seconds or parts of seconds). It’s analogue to the slider you would use if the subtitles are (a bit) out of sync. Lag is actually quite common an easily fixed.

The majority of Youtube is still auto-captioned by Google rather than uploaded captions. These are referred to as “craptions” by a number of more prominent differently abled community vloggers (an epithet I wholeheartedly agree with).

Now that so many people are wearing masks, I realize just how much I get cues from lips.

I remember things that David Letterman used to say about the Apple Newton when it came out. The old and quickly withdrawn Newton used to mess up the spelling of spoken words in the same way with hilarious results.

Training off at the end of a sentence is common. And if someone tells a joke, the punchline is usually trailed off as well.

Sometimes I just get tired of asking people to repeat.

My daughter trails off (as most folks do) and when I ask her to repeat the last word, she repeats the whole sentence, many times trailing off.

I disagree a bit.

In terms that yes, if you see the person first time in your life, then it’s going to be hard no matter what you do. But, I find it definitely helps to figure out what is said, no matter the accent, if I also can see the lips.

Experience is from meetings with people of different origins and English interpretation, me also not being native English speaker.
Not looking at the lips almost totally means having no clue what they said, while looking enabled me to get the gist out of it.

I didn’t try someone with beard, I think that’ll be horrible

So, if you use lip reading as a help to understand, that should work most of the time.
But if you only depend lip read, then I completely agree with you that those differences in lip movement makes it unusable without a lot of training first.

They repeat the whole sentence in the same volume, intonation snd trailing off at the end. My husband does the exact same thing. I even repeat the part of sentence that I heard and understood. He will still repeat the sentence. . I do read lips. It is helpful.

I taught myself how to lip read when l was very young. My mother used to tell my dad, “Don’t repeat what you said, say it in a different way”

I have considered lip-reading, but oy seems like it would be very difficult to do; especially if you are not used to it. How do you start? You see, all my life up to about 47 (a mild loss in my 20s?) my hearing was at least good enough to concentrate on people’s eyes, not very often their lips when communicating. That is until I began missing words. I am a bare- bones beginner in lip-reading. How do you start from rock bottom? Any free or low-cost lessons online or elsewhere?

I never realized I was reading lips until COVID-19 hit and everybody was wearing masks. Now I realize I’m not hearing as well when the face is turned away because I can’t see their lips.

My bank still insists on keeping that huge plexiglass in front of the tellers with only about 8 inches underneath to pass paperwork back and forth. Last time when I complained to the manager she said I could conduct my business in an office or in the lobby. No plexiglass but masks. I wonder if they feel that a bullet cannot penetrate plexiglass. I guess they must be getting sick less often as no one is breathing on them.

I never realized I did until the masks came on. What a surprise to realize how much I relied on it. When talking to my doctor he finally took off his mask because I kept saying, what? I wanted to make sure I knew what he was saying.

Same here. I didn’t know that I was lip reading till someone else noticed