Professional lip reader rocks it for Corbyn

Who WERE Jeremy Corbyn and David Cameron gossiping about as they waited for President Xi’s speech?

Terry and Tina worked together on this clip and they had a good laugh about it. It’s always advisable to co-work with another lipreader as it’s much quicker to bounce homophenes off each other and re-assess and re-check and adjust the transcript, rather than working alone and risk a less accurate transcription. We had a third and fourth lipreader double-check ambiguous words as well.

When co-working, you’re also more likely to pull a few more words from a clip as working for the newspapers under a tight deadline with constant emails asking “How’s it going?” “Have you got anything yet?” “Can you show us what you’ve got so far?” while you’re labouring on a work in progress – is just plain pressure!

Tina was working until 2am last night on a number of clips which included this segment. The newspapers were working until 4am so the emails kept coming. “Are you sure?” “Any news yet?”  “How long will it take you to finish it?”

*Is my brain fried yet?*

Today, it’s back to work as usual. As you can imagine, we are of course now arguing with their spin doctors about what was actually said…. even reaching Prime Ministers Questions…

All in a day’s work for a forensic lipreader! Or rather, four of them. Rock on!

*cue the music*

Published news articles:

Daily Mail : ‘It’s difficult because that’s his ex-wife who is apparently an ex-prostitute’: Who WERE Jeremy Corbyn and David Cameron gossiping about as they waited for President Xi’s speech?

Independent: Jeremy Corbyn denies talking about ‘ex-prostitute’ to David Cameron ahead of speech from Chinese President Xi Jinping

Metro: Did Jeremy Corbyn talk to David Cameron about prostitutes during this awkward exchange?

The Sun: Corbyn & PM ‘chat about prostitute’ as they wait for President Xi