Google’s AI watched thousands of hours of TV to learn how to read lips better than you
Nov24
Researchers from Google’s UK-based artificial intelligence division DeepMind have collaborated with scientists from the University of Oxford to develop the world’s most advanced lip-reading software – and it probably reads lips better than you. To accomplish this, the researchers fed thousands of hours of TV footage from the BBC to a neural network, training it to annotate videos based on mouth movement analysis with an accuracy of 46.8 percent. For context, when tasked with captioning the same video, a professional human lip-reader proved to be almost four times less efficient, accurately guessing the right word only 12.4 percent of the…
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