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April 3, 2002, 10:54PM


DoCoMo says prototype phone able to read lips

        Reuters News Service

LONDON -- Shouting into your mobile phone may become a thing of the past,
thanks to the latest gadget being developed by a Japanese company.

NTT DoCoMo, a subsidiary of NTT Communications Corp, is working on the world's
first lip-reading telephone that could also mean fewer loud cell phone
conversations, New Scientist magazine reported Wednesday.

"Although still some way off, the phone should put an end to users having to
shout down" into their handsets, "even in noisy environments. All they have to
do is mouth their words silently, and the phone will convert them to speech or
text," according to the weekly magazine.

Engineers at NTT DoCoMo have developed a prototype and hope to have a
lip-reading phone available in about five years.

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