Lipreaders - Computer Games vs Film

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Hi, this is a quick question for lip readers - to what extent are you able to understand the speech of characters in computer game cutscenes compared to films? do you think they are broadly comparable or are computer generated & animated faces easier/more difficult to read. Comments relating to films like Avatar, Beowulf, Toy Story etc may also be useful.
Many thanks,
James Lewis
(I'm a computer science research academic preparing a research proposal to investigate this area - both from the perspective of improving accessibility & possibilities for lipreading learning/training )
 
the good computer game cut scenes like FF were made in Japanese and re-recorded in English. makes it a bit hard to red lips.
 
I consider myself a very good lip reader. I usually interpret for people with cochlear implants just by lipreading.

I can say this for myself: animated films so far is pretty much impossible to lipread. Games? I wouldnt know much, don't play them much.
 
posts from hell said:
I consider myself a very good lip reader. I usually interpret for people with cochlear implants just by lipreading.

I can say this for myself: animated films so far is pretty much impossible to lipread. Games? I wouldnt know much, don't play them much.
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That's a no-brainer.
 
posts from hell said:
I consider myself a very good lip reader. I usually interpret for people with cochlear implants just by lipreading.

I can say this for myself: animated films so far is pretty much impossible to lipread. Games? I wouldnt know much, don't play them much.
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thank you very much for your input. It is very much appreciated.
an additional question, have you watched beowulf? - a view on this film would be interesting as the facial animation in this instance was digitised from the actors and then played back through the computer model. eg the computer generated mouth shape matches the actors mouth shape.

thanks,
James
 
In general, animated movies are much, much more difficult to lipread. Although there are movies where there are heavy uses of motion capture, for instance, A Christmas Carol (Jim Carrey) and Avatar. I haven't really thought about it, but maybe they are easier to read since they were captured.

However, live-action is usually easier to lipread provided that they don't do a thousand cuts in a second. For instance, Transformers.
 
trentjim said:
thank you very much for your input. It is very much appreciated.
an additional question, have you watched beowulf? - a view on this film would be interesting as the facial animation in this instance was digitised from the actors and then played back through the computer model. eg the computer generated mouth shape matches the actors mouth shape.

thanks,
James
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I havent seen beowulf, I will make a point to go out and watch it.
 
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