I don’t need to lipread anymore. Or use captions in meetings or movies (I do still for TV for some reason). But I was in a couple of meetings today where I still found myself looking at the speaker or at the captions all the while telling myself I didn’t need to. It was especially interesting when the speaker was using ASL rather than voice and I was finding myself still trying to lipread him even when someone across the room was voicing his words.
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