Sony's Visual Speech Enablement uses cameras and AI to read lips from far distances, no matter the noise. But are its accessibility benefits overshadowed by the potential for privacy violations?
Will Sony's New Lip-Reading Technology Invade Your Privacy?
Facial-recognition software can identify faces in a crowd, but how about picking up conversations without the help of nearby microphones? Sony's Visual Speech Enablement (which was just unveiled at CES 2021) does exactly that... so what does that mean for your privacy?
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