Lip reading

Lip reading - technique of understanding speech when sound is not available. Article “Lip reading” in English Wikipedia has 69.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 2025 the article “Lip reading” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Lip reading”, its content was written by 181 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 563 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 212 times in English Wikipedia and cited 863 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #8182 in March 2016
• Global: #3867 in June 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #136870 in October 2011
• Global: #68092 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, 2025 (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		69.7146
2	Greek (el) Χειλεανάγνωση		41.1516
3	Czech (cs) Odezírání		31.4658
4	Esperanto (eo) Liplegado		29.7323
5	Russian (ru) Чтение по губам		27.5822
6	Ukrainian (uk) Читання з губ		25.6996
7	Portuguese (pt) Leitura labial		24.4916
8	Persian (fa) لب‌خوانی		23.2349
9	Hungarian (hu) Szájról olvasás		22.5748
10	Chinese (zh) 读唇法		17.0623

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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		817 228
2	Japanese (ja) 読唇術		291 468
3	German (de) Lippenlesen		131 301
4	French (fr) Lecture labiale		111 838
5	Russian (ru) Чтение по губам		83 511
6	Portuguese (pt) Leitura labial		68 037
7	Chinese (zh) 读唇法		57 227
8	Dutch (nl) Spraakafzien		45 383
9	Spanish (es) Lectura de labios		39 150
10	Arabic (ar) قراءة الشفاه		26 362

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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 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lip reading		3 627
2	Japanese (ja) 読唇術		517
3	Chinese (zh) 读唇法		302
4	French (fr) Lecture labiale		295
5	Russian (ru) Чтение по губам		215
6	German (de) Lippenlesen		214
7	Spanish (es) Lectura de labios		135
8	Portuguese (pt) Leitura labial		132
9	Arabic (ar) قراءة الشفاه		89
10	Korean (ko) 독순술		71

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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		181
2	French (fr) Lecture labiale		80
3	German (de) Lippenlesen		67
4	Dutch (nl) Spraakafzien		47
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 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Ezpain irakurketa		2
2	English (en) Lip reading		1
3	Esperanto (eo) Liplegado		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	Spanish (es) Lectura de labios		0
10	Persian (fa) لب‌خوانی		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		212
2	Portuguese (pt) Leitura labial		181
3	German (de) Lippenlesen		84
4	Japanese (ja) 読唇術		83
5	French (fr) Lecture labiale		60
6	Chinese (zh) 读唇法		40
7	Russian (ru) Чтение по губам		34
8	Dutch (nl) Spraakafzien		26
9	Hebrew (he) קריאת שפתיים		25
10	Arabic (ar) قراءة الشفاه		18

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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: #136870 10.2011

Global: #68092 03.2015

Best Rank

English: #8182 03.2016

Global: #3867 06.2003

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