Can you tell an accent by lip reading?

Accents normally show most of their variation in the vowel sounds and these are the hardest to pick up by lip reading. A strong regional accent can often make lip reading impossible, so a lip reader might be able to tell that you had an accent simply because they couldn’t understand you.

Can deaf people recognize accents?

Most deaf speakers simply do not meet this many people, for that many hours, in order to learn to articulate with a specific accent. So, while lip-reading probably does influence the accents of deaf speakers, the extent of this remains unknown.

Can deaf people read lips in different languages?

Any oral language isn’t really suitable for a Deaf child, they should be taught the Sign Language of their native country. No language is easy to lipread. And forcing a Deaf person to lipread you knowing they can’t gather more than 30\% of a conversation is a horrible thing to do.

How do deaf learn to read lips?

Cued speech: this is another visual method of communication. It combines lip patterns with hand ‘cues’ (different hand shapes and positions next to the mouth) to differentiate the sounds of a spoken language that may otherwise look the same on the lips. For more information, contact the UK Cued Speech Association.

What is lip tracking?

Instead of only tracking features on lips, we propose to track lips along with other facial features such as pupils and nostril. In the new approach, the face is first located in an image using a stochastic skin-color model, the eyes, lip-corners and nostrils are then located and tracked inside the facial region.

Can deaf people have a British accent?

Not an accent per se. If someone who is deaf chooses to learn speech they will often have a flat intonation since they have never heard speech and cannot hear themselves speak.

How do you read mouth movements?

How to lipread

1. Know the context.
2. Use lipreading to clarify what you hear.
3. Look at the patterns of lip movements and shapes.
4. Anticipate what kind of words will follow.
5. Use lateral thinking to make an educated guess.
6. Substitute to make sense!
7. Practise recognising well-known words and phrases.
8. Use knowledge of rhythm of speech.