Lip Reading
From: NASA Tech Briefs Insider - 02/27/2007

Researchers at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) are developing
computer lip-reading software and hardware systems that could be used for
fighting crime. As well as law enforcement, there could be other potential
uses for the technology, such as installing a camera in a mobile phone, or on
the dashboard for in-car speech recognition systems. The project will collect
data for lip reading and use it to create computerized methods that
automatically convert videos of lip motions into text. 

Human lip-reading can be unreliable and the number of trained lip readers is
falling, mainly because people tend to be taught to sign instead. 

Read the entire story at:
http://comm.uea.ac.uk/press/release.asp?id=727

Links:
Crime Fighting Potential for Computerized Lip-reading
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070221101332.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news91278708.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/uoea-cfp022107.php

UK boffins work on lip-reading machine
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2183938/boffins-developing-lip-reading

Richard Harvey
http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~rwh/

Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/CVSSP/

Surrey University
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/

Lip Reading Computers Not Far Off
http://crunchgear.com/2007/02/21/lip-reading-computers-not-far-off/

Computerised Lip-Reading Project
http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/6072