The British company, X-Ray Glass, has launched smart glasses that allow the deaf and hard of hearing to read the conversations taking place around them, thanks to augmented reality technology.
This technology represents a revolution in the field of empowering deaf people, as it allows them to connect glasses to a smartphone, which converts conversations into texts that can be read in real time, as the glasses contain a microphone that picks up sound and sends it in less than a second to the phone, according to what the “BGR” website reported. for technical news.
XRAI Glass, which developed the technology, says that thanks to its voice recognition capabilities, the glasses can identify who is speaking, and will soon be able to translate languages, and provide the capabilities to recognize accents and voice tones.
The company didn’t share how well the software and glasses work in the most noisy environments, but a promotional video shows them in use in multiple environments, and XRAI Glass hopes to provide technology that allows the glasses and software to distinguish different sound sources in the near future.
People who are deaf or hard of hearing can participate in conversations without having to focus only on the person speaking, as the glasses visualize the text on the lenses in front of them.
Conversations data is only saved on the user’s phone instead of cloud storage, which protects his privacy and ensures that his conversations are not eavesdropped, according to the Technology Review website, which indicated that the price of these glasses reaches 483 US dollars.