George Bush Snr may not have been as quotable as his son, but the now-famous soundbite, ’Read my lips : no new taxes’, probably helped him win the presidency. He knew voters would get the message loud and clear if they used their eyes and ears together to work out what he was saying.
Now, Dr Richard Harvey of the University of East Anglia and colleagues are conceiving computers with similar skills — to read anyone’s lips in a variety of languages.
Camera links They have won a grant from the EPSRC for a three-year project to automate language- independent lip-reading by linking new (...)

Retourner à l'article