Professional lip reading services

The 121 Captions team deliver professional lip reading services online and onsite around the UK. Simply contact us and explain your requirements, whether they be for the courts, police, private investigators, or the media, and our lip readers will meet your deadline.

oral translator

What’s the difference between an oral translator and a lip-reader?

You may have seen the phrase oral translator and wondered what it means – after all, isn’t an oral translator just a redundant way of saying a translator?

forensic lip reader

We have one of the best forensic lip readers in the world

121 Captions founder and Managing Director Tina Lannin is the UK’s foremost forensic lip reader, having worked with many famous names such as the BBC and Disney.

Oral translation

Need an oral translator? We’ve got you covered

An oral translator is a specialist occupation, with very few people around the world able to do it to an exceptional degree.

Here at 121 Captions, we are lucky enough to have some of the very best oral translators in the world working for us, all across the globe, covering multiple languages.

If you need the services of an oral translator, then your search is over. Read more

transparent face mask

Why transparent face masks should be mandatory

We’re past the six-month point of this Covid-19 pandemic, and unfortunately it doesn’t look like ending any time soon.

Most countries have gone through their first wave, but as people return to work, kids return to school, and life begins to return to normal, a second wave is on the horizon.

With face masks mandatory in most public places, this rule might well become an everyday part of life post-Covid.

This opens up another can of worms that most people don’t even think about; lip reading.

Covering your mouth makes life even tougher for the deaf and hard of hearing, and it’s an issue that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later. Read more

Professional lip reading

Everything you need to know about professional lip reading

Lip reading is one of these things that everyone knows what it is, but they don’t actually know very much about it.

There are some surprising facts about lip reading as well as some common misconceptions, so we’ve put together this short article to tell you everything you need to know. Read more