Professional lipreader at World Cup 2014

 

Watch a professional lip reader at work

A 121 Captions professional lip reader will lip read the England players and managers in the 2014 World Cup, picking up what they say by lip reading their lip shapes and relaying comments to our fans on Twitter.

Lip reading is tough work – have you ever tried to lip read Sven-Göran Eriksson? Some people are harder to lip read than others, accents come into play, so do expressions, and people are running after a ball … come and join in the fun, you can follow us and #LipReaders on your choice of social media.

All World Cup comments from the professional lip reader team will be tweeted from Twitter and sent to our Facebook page.

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The Times, page 9, 12 June 2014 : Players face maximum scrutiny as lip reader tweets their every word

ITV News, 12 June 2014: Lip reading expert to monitor England at the World Cup

Der Spiegel, 27 June 2014: Lippenleser bei der WM: Halt den Mund Lip readers at the World Cup: Shut Up (English)

This is a video of Tina Lannin’s interview on Sky News at 7.20am on 20 June. She talked about the work of 121 Captions in partnership with Twitter, and her team of professional lip readers, lip reading and tweeting the England players on the football pitch.

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