About Liopa

About company

Liopa has created a novel, robust and convenient Visual Speech Recognition Platform (VSR) platform, known as LipRead. Specifically, the Liopa technology can determine speech by analysing the movement of a user’s lips as they speak into a camera. These lip movements are known as visemes and are the visual equivalent of a phoneme or unit of sound in spoken language. The Liopa technology requires no additional hardware and will work on any device with a standard forward facing camera (e.g. smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop, in-vehicle dashboard etc.). Liopa’s goal is to embed LipRead in the speech recognition systems driving today’s voice-based applications and devices. LipRead will eradicate the impacts of background noise on the accuracy and user experience of today’s voice driven applications and devices, thus removing a significant barrier to uptake of the ‘Voice UI’.