jillio

And a certain amount of context is used in all speech reading,with or without cuing. That is exactly why it is unreliable. Cuing does not distinguish between phonemes or morphemes unless it is used, period.

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Aleser

Even if you are an extraordinary speech-reader speaking a language with highly disctinct movements for most sounds, it's a very tiring task to constantly assume in a reasonably paced conversation what the person might be saying, because there is NO language whatsoever that does not employ sounds that look identical.

Learning cued speech inevitably makes you better at speechreading itself, but speechreading IS quite ambiguous, unlike cued speech. Thus, a person who ordinarily uses cued speech might be able to give or take guess a relatively small percentage of the words being spoken by a non-cuer, it is not comparable to the comprehension that the same person would get, if say, they wrote notes.

(Note, this is from my experiences with deaf speechreaders, I cannot personally do so to save my own life )

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