{"id":458,"date":"2009-10-27T16:39:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T16:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2009-10-22T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:49:53","slug":"lip-reading-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/27\/lip-reading-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lip reading computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceme.wordpress.com\/about\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Reading-lips-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Reading lips\" title=\"Reading lips\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-459\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Reading-lips-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Reading-lips-298x300.jpg 298w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Reading-lips.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Recently I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/20\/computers-vs-humans\/\">posted<\/a> about the pros and cons of machine translation versus human translation.<\/p>\n<p>It seems computers are also helping people to communicate in other ways \u2013 a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uea.ac.uk\/mac\/comm\/media\/press\/2009\/sept\/lipreading\">new study<\/a> shows they may be more effective at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnid.org.uk\/information_resources\/factsheets\/communication\/factsheets_leaflets\/watch-this-face.htm\">lip reading<\/a> than humans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers compared the accuracy of an automated lip-reading machine to that of 19 people who had lip-reading training. The study found that the automated system recognized 80 percent of words, compared to 32 percent for human lip readers.<\/p>\n<p>The machines were also able to read lips on simplistic representations of facial shape, whereas human lip-readers required a video of actual people speaking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This pilot study is the first time an automated lip-reading system has been benchmarked against human lip-readers, and the results are perhaps surprising,&#8221; said study author Sarah Hilder. (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/health.usnews.com\/articles\/health\/healthday\/2009\/09\/11\/computers-might-make-learning-lip-reading-easier.html\">US News<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This could be of major benefit to lip reading learners, and lead to new and improved methods of learning. A difficult to learn skill, lip reading will become more essential as people live longer. Any skill that helps people communicate is valuable \u2013 can you lip read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I posted about the pros and cons of machine translation versus human translation. It seems computers are also helping people to communicate in other ways \u2013 a new study shows they may be more effective at lip reading than humans. Researchers compared the accuracy of an automated lip-reading machine to that of 19 people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40,154,16],"tags":[302,371,372,370,200,373],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-language-acquisition","category-research","category-technology","tag-communication","tag-deaf","tag-learners","tag-lipreading","tag-translation","tag-uea-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}