I’ve never really had a need to lip read and never really looked into the techniques to learn how to do it, so this may be old hat. But one thing I found very i

I’ve never really had a need to lip read and never really looked into the techniques to learn how to do it, so this may be old hat. But one thing I found very interesting is that if you imagine (more active than that really, a projection that you ’hear’) sound coming from the person’s mouth, like a simple ‘aaaaaaaaaaaa’ then watch them speak you’ll start to hear utterances as they move their lips. In turn you can start to string those together contextually to kind of hear what they are saying. This probably only works if you have typical hearing and works better if you know the persons voice, but it’s not absolutely necessary.