Fascinating: a computer program analyzes a person"s lip movement in a silent movie (here: Hitler filmed by Eva Braun), matches the frames to a large library of pronounced words to find out what was being said, and then plays back the sound via a computer generated voice. This way, fully automated, a silent film turns into a film with speech, and historical archives reveal new information.
This technology was foreshadowed in Kubrick"s 2001 -- quote Wikipedia (spoilers ahead if you haven"t seen the movie):
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, after HAL appears to be mistaken about a fault in the spacecra ...
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