CCTV Cameras May Be Set To Lip Read Soon

[DamianTV]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39298199

"Computers now lip read better than humans."

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

The system, which has been trained on thousands of hours of BBC 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.

Joon Son Chung, a doctoral student at Oxford University's Department of Engineering, explained to me just how challenging a task this is. "Words like mat, bat and pat all have similar mouth shapes." It's context that helps his system - or indeed a professional lip reader - to understand what word is being spoken.

"What the system does," explains Joon, "is to learn things that come together, in this case the mouth shapes and the characters and what the likely upcoming characters are."

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I'll bet Advertisers would have a field day if only they could data-parse everything you ever say, ever...

[opal]

so.. any time you're in public.. sing something stupid - lettem lip read twinkle twinkle little star..

[timosman]

so.. any time you're in public.. sing something stupid - lettem lip read twinkle twinkle little star..

Keep repeating taxation is theft.

[agitator]

[Brian4Liberty]

They already have software that does this. Works great...

[merkelstan]

Not at current resolutions.

A cctv will only resolve your mouth with a handful of pixels at normal distances.

[Son_of_Liberty90]

HAL is here

[Zippyjuan]

Not at current resolutions.

A cctv will only resolve your mouth with a handful of pixels at normal distances.

"Can you stand close to the camera and enunciate clearly please?

[Anti Federalist]

And the noose tightens another notch...freedom is dead...now I'm just wondering how hard they will bet the corpse.

[DamianTV]

And the noose tightens another notch...freedom is dead...now I'm just wondering how hard they will bet the corpse.

My fear is that even talking about freedom from oppression of the status quo in general will get you slapped with a flag on a computer database in the event of an actual revolution. Any form of resistance, even discussing it will not be tolerated by the Status Quo / Deep State.