The Turkish lip reading using deep learning method

Automated lip reading is a research problem that has developed considerably in recent years. Lip reading is evaluated both visually and audibly in some cases. Detecting an unwanted word from a security camera is an example of a visual lip-reading problem. Audio-visual datasets are not applicable where such image-only data is involved. Therefore, we may not have audio input in all cases. In certain cases, it is not feasible to obtain the audio input of the spoken word. In this study, we have gathered a novel Turkish dataset consisting solely of images. The dataset was generated using YouTube videos, which constitute an uncontrolled environment. Consequently, the images present challenging parameters with respect to environmental factors such as lighting conditions, angles, colors, and individual facial characteristics. Despite the variations in facial attributes like mustaches, beards, and makeup, the visual speech recognition problem was addressed using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) without making any modifications to the data. The problem was formulated with 10 classes, comprising single words and two-word phrases. While developing the study, comparisons were made with LSTM, BGRU, and Dilated CNN. The proposed study using only-visual data obtained a model which is automated visual speech recognition with a deep learning approach. In addition, since this study uses only-visual data, the computational cost and resource usage is less than in multi-modal studies. Also, we introduce introduced a novel approach called Concatenated Frame Images, which involved combining image frames into a single large frame. It is also the first known study to address the lip reading problem with a deep learning algorithm using a new dataset belonging to the Ural-Altaic languages.