PCWorld: Can Your Computer Read Lips?

"Intel has released software which enables a computer to perform a similar task to human lip-reading, as an aid to existing sound-based voice recognition systems, the company said Monday.

"The Audio Visual Speech Recognition software should improve the accuracy of speech-recognition software under difficult conditions, especially those involving background noise, Intel said in a statement...

"AVSR is part of Intel's OpenCV computer vision library, a toolbox of imaging functions for developing computer vision applications, which contains a number of face detection algorithms..."

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