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A combination of technology that wasn’t available in 1972 and Elliott’s hiring of a lip-reader allowed him and a team of film technicians to create a coherent version of the film.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2019

The slo-mo is so slow you would need to be not only an expert lip-reader, but to speed up the footage slightly to make out exactly what deprecations were being issued.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2011

Perhaps she could relate; losing her hearing in her early 20s because of Ménière’s syndrome must have limited her ability to communicate, although she was apparently an accomplished lip-reader.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2010

She covers this defect by being an expert lip-reader.

From Time Magazine Archive

He starts to speak — I can’t hear the words over the shouts, the clapping, and the roar of the band, but I’m a good lip-reader.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick