Glasses that allow people who are deaf to have conversations on the phone 🕶
Glasses that allow people who are deaf to have conversations on the phone 🕶
#32 2022 | Sparkmate
Technology will not solve all the world's problems but surely the hardest ones.
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Matched with the ambition and grit of entrepreneurs who want to make a change, technology really can help solve the biggest problems - a perfect example of the week:
Startup XRAI Glass on making smart glasses. To help people who are deaf add subtitles to everything they hear - which also allows them to have conversations on the phone! 📞 More about this below.
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💭 TECH FOOD FOR THOUGHTGlasses that allow people who are deaf to have conversations on the phone 🕶
Technology and entrepreneurs fixing one global problem at a time ⚡️ British startup XRAI Glass has released smart AR glasses that features pioneering software to help hundreds of millions of people who are deaf or have hearing loss.
Their tagline says it all - Life. Subtitled. The phone-tethered, AR glasses reads speech in real-time through closed captioning. The software converts audio into a subtitled version of the conversation that shows on the user’s glasses! So far, it also has voice recognition capabilities to know who’s speaking, and will later be able to translate languages, accents and pitches.
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