New Computer Software Program Excels at Lip Reading
From: ECN Magazine - 03/17/2017

A new computer software program has the potential to lip-read more accurately
than people and to help those with hearing loss, Oxford University
researchers have found.

Watch, Attend and Spell (WAS), is a new artificial intelligence (AI) software
system that has been developed by Oxford, in collaboration with the company
DeepMind.

The AI system uses computer vision and machine learning methods to learn how
to lip-read from a dataset made up of more than 5,000 hours of TV footage,
gathered from six different programmes including Newsnight, BBC Breakfast and
Question Time. The videos contained more than 118,000 sentences in total, and
a vocabulary of 17,500 words.

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https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2017/03/new-computer-software-program-excels-lip-reading
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-software-excels-lip.html

Links:
New computer software programme excels at lip reading
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-17-new-computer-software-programme-excels-lip-reading

Lip Reading Sentences in the Wild
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.05358.pdf

Lipreading system is focus of research team at University of Oxford (with
  video 1:43)
https://techxplore.com/news/2016-11-lipreading-focus-team-university-oxford.html

AI software is proven to be better at lip-reading than humans
http://www.verdict.co.uk/ai-software-is-proven-to-be-better-at-lip-reading-than-humans

Google's DeepMind Made an AI Watch Close To 5000 Videos So That It Surpasses
  Humans in Lip-Reading
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/11/25/1146258/googles-deepmind-made-an-ai-watch-close-to-5000-videos-so-that-it-surpasses-humans-in-lip-reading