Intel Teaches Computers to Lip-Read
From: VNUNet - April 29, 2003
By: Anthony Dhanendran

Intel's Audio Visual Speech Recognition software is an open-source speech
recognition program that uses face detection algorithms from the company's
OpenCV computer vision library to read lips in an effort to improve the
accuracy of speech recognition programs. The software tracks mouth movements
in a process similar to human lip reading, and was designed to boost the
efficacy of voice-recognition systems in noisy environments. Intel's Justin
Rattner, director of the company's Microprocessor Research Labs, says, "Intel
wants to develop technology that allows computers to interact with the world
the way humans do."  

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