Lipread
Lipreading tutor Helen Barrow describes how reading lips really works, and gossip maven Lainey Lui explains why lipreading gossip stories are unworthy of attention
Lipreading has been in the news this month, thanks to gossip-stoking mouth movements at the Golden Globes that the amateur lipreaders of The Internet rushed to interpret. But lipreading tutor Helen Barrow describes how reading lips really works - the confusable consonants, the importance of context and body language - and gossip maven Lainey Lui explains why these regularly occurring lipreading gossip stories are unworthy of a second or even first glance.
Get the transcript of this episode, and find links to the guests and more information about the topics therein, at theallusionist.org/lipread.
Content note: this episode contains three Category B swears.
