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Re:United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025 by cryptoz on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:10PM (#42603645)
Seems like a use case for AI right here; just have the user 'talk' silently, mouthing the words or in a very quiet whisper. I assume AI can read lips pretty well by now right? So turn on your video, have the AI already know how to synthesize your voice, and then just careful mouth the words into the camera. An AI model should be able to live-synthesize your voice that matches what you want to say and I think there would be minimal latency, not any worse than other video conferencing latency. And with headphones on, nobody on the plane can hear the other side, or you. And you could get a live transcript visible to you as well, so you could know if the AI made a mistake in reading your lips and you could correct it.

Might look weird but shrug.

Re:United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025 by throw5959 on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:18PM (#42603728)
AI can read lips better than humans. Unfortunately, lip reading isn't really possible. Too much ambiguity and way too hard to do it in a recognizable way while not making any sounds.
Re:United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025 by rurcliped on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:33PM (#42603847)
To disambiguate, the person on the plane could learn to use hand signals (e.g., Cued Speech) and the AI model can be trained on that.
Re:United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025 by NegativeK on Sunday January 05, 2025 @02:50PM (#42604456)
I can't tell if this is an oblique reference to keyboards or not.
Re:United Airlines to launch Starlink wi-fi in spring 2025 by yencabulator on Sunday January 05, 2025 @11:54PM (#42607799)