This reminds of my first hearing aid which was ‘disguised’ as a pair of glasses!
I must say that I think that glasses able to provide live captions is a brilliant idea. My nerd brain immediately thinks of all the challenges of designing a usable product (latency, accommodating for accents,etc) but I wish the developers all the best because this would be a fantastic product!
Sitting in the dimly lit restaurant, I struggled to read the menu. Lucky for me, I keep readers in my purse, which I quickly pulled out and the problem was solved. But when the waiter came to tell us about the specials, I had trouble hearing him, even though I was wearing my hearing aids and lipreading furiously.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if I could solve this problem just as easily — reaching into my purse for my captioning glasses — ones that would turn speech into text in real-time and with exceptional accuracy? Interestingly, a graduate student team at Cornell Tech is working on something just like this.
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