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The Human Speechome Project

WebProNews, May 17, 2006 MIT may be on the verge of a revolutionary development in speech and video algorithmic technology. Their test subject: a 9 month-old baby boy, who is the center of a project called “The Human Speechome Project.” Associate Professor Deb Roy, head of the MIT Media Lab’s Cognitive Machines research group, has wired his home with 11 overhead, omni-directional fisheye video cameras and 14 ceiling-mounted microphones. It will record all of Roy’s son’s 400,000 waking hours for three years, with the objective of discovering how humans naturally acquire language in social settings.

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