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Lip reading Technology in Phones for Speechless Conversations

Posted March 03, 2010 7:25 AM

From Newlaunches.com:

Conversations being overheard will not be a problem once this cool technology from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) makes its way to our cellphones. With the help of the principle of electromyography, the technology enables users to communicate with mouth movements, similar to speech, the only difference being that there's no sound produced. The message magically gets interpreted and transferred over to the person on the other end of the call.

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03/04/2010 10:02 AM

I must be missing something. TFA says that when your phone can read your lips and translate inaudible speech to text, your conversation will be more secure. What's stopping your similarly-equipped neighbor's phone from reading your lips too? (Assuming it's silly 1MPixel camera can "see" that far.)

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03/04/2010 7:47 PM

AH, they're in for a big shock the day they find out what the goldfish have been trying to tell us all these years...

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