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# Lip-Reading Software Programs
Oxford's 'LipNet' Can Read Lips with Over 90 Percent Accuracy

By Joey Haar | Published 2016-11-09 | Tech
Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/lipnet
References: [gizmodo](http://gizmodo.com/researchers-just-created-the-most-amazing-lip-reading-s-1788748163) & [arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01599)

Researchers from the [University of Oxford's](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/aipowered-forensic) Computer Science Department have developed a software program called 'LipNet' that can [read people's lips](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/voicebuds) with incredible accuracy. The program can take a video sequence as input and analyze it frame by frame in order to predict complete sentences.

Lipreading is a difficult task that the average person can't do whatsoever. People with experience lipreading -- such as those who are hard of hearing -- fare much better, but still have an average performance of just 52 percent accuracy. In Oxford's tests, LipNet performed with 93 percent accuracy -- an incredible improvement above humans.

LipNet was trained using GRID, a data set of 64,000 English sentences. The researchers plan to adapt the system for real-world sentences in the future.

## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter)

- Score: 4.1/10
- Popularity: 55% | Activity: 60% | Freshness: 8%
- Audience gender: 50% men, 50% women
- Primary generations: Millennial, Gen X
- Top markets: Europe

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## Key Themes

### Why This Trend Is Growing

- **Improved Lip-reading Technology:** The development of more accurate lip-reading technology has disruptive innovation potential in fields such as communication accessibility and surveillance.
- **Artificial Intelligence for Video Analysis:** The use of AI to analyze video sequences for speech analysis and prediction has disruptive innovation potential in industries such as security and social media.
- **Adaptation of Existing AI Technology:** The adaptation of existing AI technology, such as LipNet, for real-world applications and contexts has disruptive innovation potential in industries such as education and customer service.

### Industries Being Reshaped

- **Communication Accessibility:** The improved accuracy of lip-reading technology can disrupt the communication accessibility industry by creating new avenues for people with hearing impairments to communicate effectively.
- **Security Surveillance:** AI-based video analysis tools like LipNet have disruptive innovation potential for the security surveillance industry by providing more accurate speech recognition capabilities for forensic and security purposes.
- **Social Media:** The use of AI-based video analysis for speech prediction has disruptive innovation potential in the social media industry, enabling new features for language translation and accessibility for videos and live streams.

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