Lip-reading tech will boost voice recognition in noisy environments

Liopa co-founders Richard McConnell and Liam McQuillan, pictured with Hal Wilson, far right, partner, techstart NI

Company: Liopa

Done deal:$1m investment

The clincher:“Liopa brings together great technology, a strong team and an exciting market opportunity” - Hal Wilson, partner, Techstart NI

Liopa, the Belfast start-up developing the world’s first Visual Speech Recognition (VSR) platform, has secured funding of US$1million (€809,000) from investors including Techstart NI and Qubis.

The company will commercialise its lip-reading technology on foot of the funding from Qubis, the commercialisation arm of Queen’s University Belfast business, ...