Study reveals what people really see when they read lips LAWRENCE — New research from the University of Kansas uses network science to determine why people make mistakes when lip reading. Michael Vitevitch, professor of speech-language-hearing at KU, and his co-authors created a visual map of around 20,000 words in English, hoping to better grasp why some words are more difficult to lip-read than others. The results appear in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Findings could...