Reading Lips In Software

SEWilco writes "The Register points out that Intel has released code for reading lips from a video image, Audio Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR). They do point out that better results would probably be achieved by combining video and audio recognition processing. I don't know if they have any patents, we all know some prior "art" from 2001, er.. 1968. HAL's accomplishment was also mentioned by CNN during 2001 in an article about this group's work."

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So computers can now talk to themselves (Re /.)

[skermit]

A couple months ago, a very fine article was posted to /. about work at MIT regarding speech-->video synthesis using pre-recorded syllables. This means in the near future we'll be able to have avatars which an communicate to other people by videophone and/or other computers should we wish to do so. I'm reposting the old link because it got /.'ed for about 2 months (the professor took down the link) before putting the vids back up. So check out the amazing work that's on the flip-side of this article.

http://cerboli.mit.edu:8000/research/mary101/resul ts/results.html

Not that 2001 ended up being very accurate...

[DeadScreenSky]

... but I think it is interesting that Arthur C. Clarke thought HAL reading lips was the only implausible scene in the film. You know, as opposed to the whole aliens thing. :P Just goes to show you the perils of trying to predict the future...