speech-read

A verb used to indicate the act of understanding spoken language by observing the speaker's lip movements, facial expressions, and gestures, typically used by people with hearing impairments.

• 🇩🇪Verb, das die Fähigkeit bezeichnet, gesprochene Sprache zu verstehen, indem man die Lippenbewegungen, die Mimik und die Gestik des Sprechenden beobachtet; wird vor allem von Menschen mit Hörbeeinträchtigungen genutzt.

1. Interpret by lipreading B2 formal

   To understand spoken language by observing the movements of a speaker's lips and facial expressions, typically used by deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals.

   • She learned to speech-read at a young age to communicate more effectively.
   • He speech-reads his colleagues during meetings to follow the conversation.
   • The therapist taught the patient how to speech-read in noisy environments.

   🇩🇪Von den Lippen ablesen

   Synonyme: lip-readlipread

• speech-read past participle
• speech-read past simple
• speech-reading present participle
• speech-reads third person singular