Artificial Intelligence Developed That Lip-Reads Better Than Humans

Scientists from the Oxford University along with Google's DeepMind have developed an artificial intelligence system that can lip-read better than humans. The system was trained by thousands of hours of BBC news programs, the media outlet said Friday. The system, called "Watch, Attend and Spell," can correctly lip-read 50 percent of silent speech correctly, while professional lip-readers only got 12 percent right, researchers found. Read: Google AI Firm DeepMind Develops'Streams' App to Help UK Doctors With Patients Some words that rhyme, such as like mat, bat and mat, have similar mouth shapes. However, it's context is what helps lip-reading, Joon Son Chung from the university's Department of Engineering said. The system learns "things that come together, in this case the mouth shapes and the characters and what the likely upcoming characters are," explained Joon.