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AI Identifies Text from Keyboard Sounds with 95% Accuracy

A new study shows how AI can recognize text from keyboard sounds with 95% accuracy.

Back in my student days, there was a rumor that you could recognize typed text, including passwords, by the sound of a keyboard. Thanks to recent advancements in deep learning, this has become a reality. A new study demonstrates how modern deep learning models can classify keystrokes from a laptop keyboard using a smartphone's built-in microphone. When trained on keystrokes recorded near the phone, the accuracy reaches 95%.

📝 Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01074

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