Eight CV's (with a) were audio/video color recorded. The consonants included p, b, k, g, s, z, f, and v. Using video‐editing techniques the audio from these consonants was dubbed such that all possible pairings of each visual consonant occurred with each audio consonant. Thus 64 stimuli were constructed that consisted of 56 conflicting visual and auditory stimuli and eight nonconflicting stimuli. Subjects were seated in front of a video monitor with earphones and asked to write their response to each stimulus item. The auditory‐alone mode confirmed unequivocally correct intelligibility of each consonant. However, when conflicting visual speech reading cues were present confusions were reliable and consistent. Confusions within the fricative class (f, v, s, and z) occurred as well as confusions within the stop class (p, b, k, and g). Interclass confusions were also prominent. Especially noteworthy was the perception of consonants not present acoustically (e.g., θ, Ø, t, 1). An extremely robust confusion occurred for (f) presented visually and (b) auditorily. With voicing present auditorily subjects responses were consistently a voiceless (f). These data will be discussed with respect to distinctive feature theory and information processing.