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Speechreading: What Lips Can and Can't Tell Us
Lip reading isn't a superpower — it's speechreading, a lossy reconstruction problem the brain solves using lips, face, gesture, and context. This episode walks through the real mechanics: why P, B, and M are indistinguishable on the mouth, how the McGurk effect shows visual speech overriding audio, and what two years of training looks like for someone with single-sided deafness after childhood meningitis. Then it turns to the paranoid fantasy: is anyone actually decoding what a head of state says while being rushed into a car? The answer involves frame-by-frame analysis, disputed press claims…
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