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Researchers Convert Mouth Movements Into Speech

Posted by samzenpus on from the mouthing-of-the-future dept.

andylim writes "According to Cellular News, researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a method for mobile phones to convert silent mouth movements into speech. As recombu.com points out, the 'potential for secret conversations just got huge.' You could pass the time by making phone calls from the cinema without disturbing anyone. In noisy places like bars and clubs you could make yourself heard without having to shout."

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  1. Re:tap-proof? by ScrewMaster · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to my ASL instructor, lip readers are rarely more than 50% accurate. Which makes me wonder about the alleged capabilities of this software, honestly.

    Hard to say. However, if you want true speaker-independent language recognition ... well, even using voice it's only so-so. On the other hand, if what you want is the ability to issue commands to the computer using a much more limited vocabulary, I'd think you'd have more potential.

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