Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Researchers Work To Perfect Computerized Lip Reading

Posted by Zonk on from the eee-aye-eee-aye-oh dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "Researchers at the University of East Anglia are working to develop computerized lip-reading systems. Lip-reading is extremely hard for humans to master, but a software-based system has several benefits over even the most highly trained expert. The ultimate goal of the project is to convert lip-read speech into text. 'Apart from being extremely helpful to hearing-disabled individuals, researchers say that such a system could be used to noiselessly dictate commands to electronic devices equipped with a simple camera - like mobile phones, microwaves or even a car's dashboard. England's Home Office Scientific Development Branch ... is currently investigating the feasibility of using lip-reading software as an additional tool for gathering information about criminals or for collecting evidence.'"

4 of 117 comments (clear)

  1. Test it on niggers first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Their lips are the size of texas.

    You know, chapstick with a paintroller and all.

    amirite?

    1. Re:Test it on niggers first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Their lips are the size of texas.

      Bruce Willis and his team of niggernauts have been dispatched to deal with the problem.

      RON PAUL 2008
    2. Re:Test it on niggers first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      How does one nig anyway? Does it have anything to do with fried chicken?

      RuPaul '08

  2. Xepf!. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    sux08 sta7us, *BSD