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visemes

visemes is the plural of viseme.

Meaning of viseme

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

Questions about visemes

What is visemes the plural of?
Visemes is the plural of viseme.

Words near visemes in the dictionary

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

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