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Oxford working on lip-reading AI

───   07:47 Sat, 18 Mar 2017

Oxford working on lip-reading AI | News Article

London - Scientists at Oxford say they've invented an artificial intelligence system that can lip-read better than humans.


BBC reports that the system, which has been trained on thousands of hours of their news programmes, has been developed in collaboration with Google's DeepMind AI division. 

"Watch, Attend and Spell", as the system has been called, can now watch silent speech and get about 50% of the words correct. 

That may not sound too impressive - but when the researchers supplied the same clips to professional lip-readers, they got only 12% of words right. 

In many cases, the AI lip-reading system could be used to improve the performance of other forms of speech recognition.

BBC



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