A new artificial intelligence system can now lip read better than humans, according to New Scientist. Though films and pop culture usually show lip reading as some incredible tool that allows you to decode what anyone says, in practice, it’s fairly spotty: Even for experienced lip readers, one estimate puts the amount of speech you can interpret from someone’s lip movements at a mere 30 percent.
But artificial intelligence researchers from Google’s DeepMind and the University of Oxford’s engineering department have been working on a network that transcribes natural sentences just from visuals of people talking with no audio. It can also transcribe audio with no video.
via Mental Floss
