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I'd imagine one could apply this network to a video of someone speaking

Yup I believe they announced this at Google I/O Keynote this year actually -- they mentioned that while it might not be enough with just the audio, looking at mouth gestures can give AI enough to know what might be said by whom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogfYd705cRs&t=7m0s

Reflecting on your last phrase: I was watching Esports the other day, the player was talking with a very loose mouth and I wondered if he was avoiding being lip-read.

I imagine a lip reading AI would get wide usage. Managers will be wearing face masks to hide their lips. (It's probably doable now to listen with a spy-mic, but it's obvious in a way that using a normal video camera isn't).

Julia Probst is a german deaf blogger [1] who is famous [2] for lipreading tactical commands given by soccer coaches to their team during a match and posting them on twitter. She is even hired by sport channels on TV to provide the commentator with insight information.

[1] https://twitter.com/einaugenschmaus [2] http://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/lippenlesen-im-fussball-die...

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