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Loose Lips Could Sink Perps

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Michael A. Greenwood

Even a whispered secret may no longer be safe. A team of researchers at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, has begun a three-year project to devise computer-driven lip-reading systems that could take a videotaped conversation and convert it into text. Although an eavesdropping camera that recognizes every turn of the mouth might sound like George Orwell’s Big Brother, proponents say that the technology could be a valuable tool for crime fighting, security and a host of more mundane applications, such as mobile phone cameras and in-car speech recognition. The futuristic...Read full article

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