We Tried New AI Lip Reading ToolHere’s How it Fared [Video]

Audio tech startup Symphonic Labs has released an online tool showcasing how their AI performs at lip reading. We put it to the test.

The San Francisco and Canada-based startup creates what it calls tools for “multimodal speech understanding” with applications including voice calls in highly noisy environments or whispering to your voice assistant in public.

“Wanna know what people like Blake Lively, Taylor Swift, LeBron James, and more are saying when the microphones aren’t around? We just launched readtheirlips.com, allowing you to upload a video of any speaker and identify inaudible speech using our AI Lip Reading model,” the startup posted on LinkedIn.

Anyone can upload a short video clip to the site and it will return text of what it calculates is being said. The video must clearly show the face and lips of the speaker.

We tested Symphonic Lab’s lip reading AI on a 26 second Getty Images clip of U.S. VP Kamala Harris…