Lip reading

Lip reading - technique of understanding speech when sound is not available. Article “Lip reading” in English Wikipedia has 69.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 82 references and 21 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Lip reading” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Lip reading”, its content was written by 189 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 577 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 232 times in English Wikipedia and cited 874 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8195 in March 2016
• Global: #3872 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #137516 in October 2011
• Global: #69004 in March 2015

There are 22 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Lip reading		69.3822
2	Greek (el) Χειλεανάγνωση		41.3953
3	Czech (cs) Odezírání		31.3637
4	Esperanto (eo) Liplegado		29.6469
5	Russian (ru) Чтение по губам		26.1972
6	Ukrainian (uk) Читання з губ		25.5296
7	Portuguese (pt) Leitura labial		24.3764
8	Persian (fa) لب‌خوانی		22.9301
9	Hungarian (hu) Szájról olvasás		22.3343
10	Chinese (zh) 读唇法		17.0351

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Lip reading" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lip reading		839 316
2	Japanese (ja) 読唇術		297 631
3	German (de) Lippenlesen		133 685
4	French (fr) Lecture labiale		114 508
5	Russian (ru) Чтение по губам		86 194
6	Portuguese (pt) Leitura labial		69 020
7	Chinese (zh) 读唇法		60 923
8	Dutch (nl) Spraakafzien		45 973
9	Spanish (es) Lectura de labios		40 145
10	Arabic (ar) قراءة الشفاه		27 056

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Lip reading" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lip reading		2 694
2	Japanese (ja) 読唇術		503
3	Chinese (zh) 读唇法		297
4	French (fr) Lecture labiale		207
5	German (de) Lippenlesen		160
6	Russian (ru) Чтение по губам		160
7	Portuguese (pt) Leitura labial		95
8	Spanish (es) Lectura de labios		94
9	Persian (fa) لب‌خوانی		33
10	Finnish (fi) Huuliltaluku		29

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Lip reading" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lip reading		189
2	French (fr) Lecture labiale		80
3	German (de) Lippenlesen		68
4	Dutch (nl) Spraakafzien		49
5	Portuguese (pt) Leitura labial		47
6	Japanese (ja) 読唇術		24
7	Spanish (es) Lectura de labios		18
8	Danish (da) Mundaflæsning		15
9	Hungarian (hu) Szájról olvasás		13
10	Chinese (zh) 读唇法		11

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Lip reading" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lip reading		2
2	Basque (eu) Ezpain-irakurketa		1
3	Korean (ko) 독순술		1
4	Arabic (ar) قراءة الشفاه		0
5	Czech (cs) Odezírání		0
6	Danish (da) Mundaflæsning		0
7	German (de) Lippenlesen		0
8	Greek (el) Χειλεανάγνωση		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Liplegado		0
10	Spanish (es) Lectura de labios		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Lip reading" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lip reading		232
2	Portuguese (pt) Leitura labial		180
3	Japanese (ja) 読唇術		86
4	German (de) Lippenlesen		79
5	French (fr) Lecture labiale		59
6	Russian (ru) Чтение по губам		34
7	Chinese (zh) 读唇法		33
8	Dutch (nl) Spraakafzien		25
9	Hebrew (he) קריאת שפתיים		24
10	Arabic (ar) قراءة الشفاه		23

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic قراءة الشفاه
cs	Czech Odezírání
da	Danish Mundaflæsning
de	German Lippenlesen
el	Greek Χειλεανάγνωση
en	English Lip reading
eo	Esperanto Liplegado
es	Spanish Lectura de labios
eu	Basque Ezpain-irakurketa
fa	Persian لب‌خوانی
fi	Finnish Huuliltaluku
fr	French Lecture labiale
he	Hebrew קריאת שפתיים
hu	Hungarian Szájról olvasás
ja	Japanese 読唇術
ko	Korean 독순술
nl	Dutch Spraakafzien
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Munnavlesing
pt	Portuguese Leitura labial
ru	Russian Чтение по губам
uk	Ukrainian Читання з губ
zh	Chinese 读唇法

Best Rank

English: #137516 10.2011

Global: #69004 03.2015

Best Rank

English: #8195 03.2016

Global: #3872 06.2003

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