Viseme
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Viseme is a noun meaning Any of a group of speech sounds that look the same, for example when lipreading.
Meaning
Any of a group of speech sounds that look the same, for example when lipreading.
Example Sentences
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.
Resulting confusion matrices were analyzed for significant confusions among consonants; these confusions were grouped into mutually exclusive classes termed visemes.
Word Forms
- visemes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include chereme, homophone, cheireme, variphone, listeme, phonestheme.
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