The patterns on a person’s lips might be genetically linked to clefts and other orofacial disorders. A repaired cleft lip shows a whorled pattern. Image by MARY L. MARAZITA, CENTER FOR ...

Automatic lip reading (ALR) converts lip patterns (visemes) into sounds (phonemes) that are turned into words. The first ALR is attributed to Frank Hubner, who in 2006, was able to reconstruct ...

Freeman, who was born deaf, stands by the interpretation of the Gomez-Swift-Sperry exchange for one key reason: the distinctive lip patterns demanded by the word “Timothée.” “I could not ...