'It is great to see research being conducted in this area, with new breakthroughs welcomed by Action on Hearing Loss by improving accessibility for people with a hearing loss. Speaking on the tech's core value, Jesal Vishnuram, Action on Hearing Loss Technology Research Manager, said: 'Action on Hearing Loss welcomes the development of new technology that helps people who are deaf or have a hearing loss to have better access to television through superior real-time subtitling. The software could support a number of developments, including helping the hard of hearing to navigate the world around them. The machine's mistakes were small, including things like missing an "s" at the end of a word, or single letter misspellings. The human lip-reader correctly read 12 per cent of words, while the WAS software recognised 50 per cent of the words in the dataset, without error. They found that the software system was more accurate compared to the professional. The research team compared the ability of the machine and a human expert to work out what was being said in the silent video by focusing solely on each speaker's lip movements. The videos contained more than 118,000 sentences in total, and a vocabulary of 17,500 words. The AI system uses computer vision and machine learning methods to learn how to lip-read from a dataset made up of more than 5,000 hours of TV footage, gathered from six different programmes including Newsnight, BBC Breakfast and Question Time. Watch, Attend and Spell (WAS), is a new artificial intelligence (AI) software system that has been developed by Oxford, in collaboration with the company DeepMind.
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