Lip Reading Software

In modern day society, every yearns for things to be easier, to be more efficient, and convenient. When faced with a task, the first thing that comes to mind is "what's the best way to approach this?" Modern inventions make what used to be time consuming tasks seem less like a burden and more like a chore.

Everything has evolved into what seems to make the most sense, and computers have been no different. First we started out writing by hand, with a pencil. Then typewriters came along and we started typing with them. Someone came along and decided that typewriters weren't good enough for people, so he invented the word processor on the computer so that things can be easily edited. Still another person decided that he didn't like carpal tunnel syndrome so he came up with the idea of voice recognition software.

Well, I have a problem with that kind of software. I don't know how often this happens to other people, but the software just doesn't like to recognize my voice. No matter how long I "train" or "condition it for, typing up stuff is still more efficient than going back and editing all the mistakes that voice recognition produces. I propose a new type of input for inputing text: face recognition.

Most people have different tones of voice. That's where voice recognition fails. But almost everyone utilizes the same muscles in order to speak and make sounds. The lip reading software would require a camera or some sort of a three-dimensional scanner that recognizes what kind of muscles you are using in what order, and based on that, it will type out the desired word. It'll recognize more words with better results. That, and you could use this product silently so that you won't sound like some idiot talking to themselves.