Lip-Reading Computers Able to
Identify Different Languages
One of the latest inventions created
by scientists from the University of East
Anglia (UEA) are lip-reading
computers that are able to identify different languages.
Scientists managed to come
up with lip-reading computers some time earlier but now they created the first
computer that can really distinguish different languages. This latest invention
could prove to be very useful for people with hearing problems, as well
as for law enforcement agencies, and in noisy environments.
The revolutionary research
is currently led by Stephen Cox and Jake Newman of UEA's School of Computing Sciences. They
will present their latest invention at a major conference that will take place
in Taiwan on April 22.
It is worth mentioning that
the technology was built up by statistical modeling of the lip movements
developed by a team of 23 bilingual and trilingual speakers. The system could
distinguish any language with extremely high accuracy. It could identify
English, French, German, Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, Polish and
Russian ,..etc..,
The study was funded by the
EPSRC and is a part of a larger project of the University of East Anglia that
focuses on automatic lip-reading. Soon scientists will start working on the
system closer to an individual's physiology and their way of speaking.
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