Meaning of viseme | Babel Free

Definitions

Any of a group of speech sounds that look the same, for example when lipreading.

Examples

“Resulting confusion matrices were analyzed for significant confusions among consonants; these confusions were grouped into mutually exclusive classes termed visemes.”

“Each of these groups is called a viseme, a term coined by Fisher (1968). It is possible for a viseme to contain only one speech sound, but that is unusual.”

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