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Science Daily--Computers can now lip-read better than humans:

A new study by the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests computers are now better at lip-reading than humans.

A research team from the School of Computing Sciences at UEA compared the performance of a machine-based lip-reading system with that of 19 human lip-readers. They found that the automated system significantly outperformed the human lip-readers – scoring a recognition rate of 80 per cent, compared with only 32 per cent for human viewers on the same task.

This may not--in the long run--be a good thing.

(It's about 7 minutes into this clip . . . but what the heck, you've got the seven minutes to spare, don't you?)