Lip reading, a dreamed-of utility feature for uncounted AI use cases, appears near commercial availability. The news buoys the hopes of some and causes concern in others. An Irish startup, Liopa, is trialing a phone application that reportedly can interpret simple phrases mouthed by people. The underlying algorithms do not require audio to be trained, which should streamline product development, market introduction and customer training. In a Liopa marketing video, a young man who is unable to speak mouths short sentences looking into a phone camera, and pauses. The Speech Recognition App for the Voice Impaired, or Sravi, offers three guesses about what the person is trying to say.