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viseme

viseme noun: any of a group of speech sounds that look the same, for example when lipreading.

Noun

viseme (plural visemes)

  1. Any of a group of speech sounds that look the same, for example when lipreading.
    • Resulting confusion matrices were analyzed for significant confusions among consonants; these confusions were grouped into mutually exclusive classes termed visemes.1968 December, Cletus G. Fisher, “Confusions Among Visually Perceived Consonants”, in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, volume 11, page 796
    • 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.1996, Mary June Moseley, Communication Therapy, page 234

Forms of viseme

pluralvisemes

Words formed from viseme

Questions about viseme

What does viseme mean?
Viseme means any of a group of speech sounds that look the same, for example when lipreading.
What part of speech is viseme?
Viseme is a noun.
What is the plural of viseme?
The plural of viseme is visemes.

Words near viseme in the dictionary

  1. Visegrád
  2. viseing
  3. viseite
  4. viselike
  5. viseman
  6. viseme
  7. visemen
  8. visemes
  9. visemic
  10. vises
  11. Viseu

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