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While work has been done for some time on computer programs that are able to read lips, scientists at University of East Anglia’s School in England have gone beyond that point altogether, creating technology that allows computers to identify differences between languages. Potential uses for the new technology would be in noisy environments, to aid law enforcement or benefit the deaf and hard of hearing. Using a group of 23 bilingual and trilingual speakers, scientists developed a system where they could, with a extremely high degree of accuracy, identify a language spoken by individual speakers. Considering the languages able to be identified, which include English, French, German, Arabic, Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, Polish and Russian, this technology probably covers about over 80% of people worldwide.  This is an exciting advance in automatic lip-reading technology and the first scientific confirmation of something we already intuitively suspected—that when people speak different languages, they use different mouth shapes in different sequences,” said Professor Stephen Cox, who led the research along with Jake Newman. “For example, we found frequent ‘lip rounding’ among French speakers, and more prominent tongue movements among Arabic speakers.
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