Automated Lip Reading (ALR) is a software technology developed by speech recognition expert Frank Hubner. A video image of a person talking can be analysed by the software. The shapes made by the lips can be examined and then turned into sounds. The sounds are compared to a dictionary to create matches to the words being spoken.

The technology was used successfully to analyse silent home movie footage of Adolf Hitler taken by Eva Braun at their Bavarian retreat Berghof.

Automated Lip Reading

The video, with words, was included in a documentary titled "Hitler's Private World", Revealed Studios, 2006

Automated Lip Reading

Source: New Technology catches Hitler off guard

See also

Audio-visual speech recognition

Silent speech interface

Articulatory speech recognition

Computational linguistics

Facial motion capture

lip-reading

Computational linguistics

Speech recognition

Applications of computer vision

Automated Lip Reading