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Researchers Convert Mouth Movements Into Speech
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."
From TFA: "For the transmission of passwords and PINs, for example, users can change seamlessly to soundless language and, hence, transmit confidential information in a tap-proof manner." Um, not if there is a lip-reader in the same room, like a hearing-impaired person.
Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Dave Bowman: Alright, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock.
HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.
Dave Bowman: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore. Open the doors.
HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
It's been almost a decade since hands-free headsets reached the market and its users still creep me out.
I don't think I can ever get used to seeing the streets full of mimes.
And I was just waiting for that sign, well hidden somewhere in the article, that this is just some beta concept that will stay as such forever.
And then I found the photo of two guys with shitloads of cables attached to their faces.
There's a huge difference between "cellphones convert mouth movements into speech" and "Guy with shitloads of cables on his face tracks the movements of his mouth muscles using 4 unix servers running a processor intensive application with an accuracy of 25%"
The whole thing has nothing to do with cellphones. It's just yet another muscle tracking system, but used on the mouth instead of the hands, and tied to a TTS engine.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
The Agent obviously knew about this device already. That's why he removed Neo's lips entirely.
The machines are always one step ahead of us.
It's dark in most cinemas. Will the phone contain a light to shine on your face to annoy the sucker behind you? People txting in theatres annoy me too.
Honestly, I HATE it when submitters need to think of an example, and then come up with a shit one. You're better off with no example that thinking of the first crap that comes into your head!
No, never and fuck off come to mind. Using a mobile phone in a cinema is one of the least considerate things anyone can do, they create light pollution distracting other patrons from what they are paying for and are absolutely not needed (the exception, emergency staff on call, and they usually just leave their phone on vibrate + silent) let alone any audible noise from them, can't you seriously just disconnect for an hour?
In short, No.
In long, Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo-ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-oooooooooooooooooooooooo :)
Also in USA at least its illegal (federal law) to operate any video recording device in a cinema.
yes, blatant ZP rip-off but its needed.
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Especially when you consider the number of people who constantly move their mouths and say nothing.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
Anytime a technology is a real turd with no use, the folks marketing it try to list as many uses as possible. It's like the ad for the GT Xpress 101 Countertop Grill, which can make omelettes, bake brownies, grill cheeseburgers, boil soup and starch your shirts.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
Apparently, the writer at recombu.com is one of those annoying people who fail to recognize that, whether or not you make any sound, opening your phone in a movie theater is extremely disturbing to everyone sitting in the rows behind you. The glowing screen is like a beacon inside the darkened room.
You could pass the time by making phone calls from the cinema without disturbing anyone.
NO!
It's not only the noise that you make talking; it's also the light from the phone.
If you're a zombie and you know it, bite your friend!
You could pass the time by making phone calls from the cinema
I've always thought that the best way to pass the time in a cinema is to watch the fucking movie.