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Unmute reads silent lips for ICU patients

Unmute is an offline lip-reading tool for ICU patients who cannot speak, using a laptop camera to detect mouth movements and display top three likely phrases.

Published 2026-11-16 01:27 (Beijing time)Source Dev.to AIAuto-summarised, fact-checked against source

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It confirms sentences via touch or nod, reads them aloud, and alerts nurses to urgent requests like 'I cannot breathe'. The system runs locally without internet, uses no training data for new users, and improves over time by learning patient-specific lip patterns.

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