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Visual map of 20,000 words reveals why lip-readers confuse common look-alikes

New research from the University of Kansas uses network science to determine why people make mistakes when lip-reading. Michael Vitevitch, professor of speech-language-hearing at KU, and his co-authors created a visual map of about 20,000 words in English, hoping to better grasp why some words are m...

Visual map of 20,000 words reveals why lip-readers confuse common look-alikes
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New research from the University of Kansas uses network science to determine why people make mistakes when lip-reading. Michael Vitevitch, professor of speech-language-hearing at KU, and his co-authors created a visual map of about 20,000 words in English, hoping to better grasp why some words are more difficult to lip-read than others.

Originally published at Phys.org

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