So, had this idea yesterday while riding in the car with my wife (I was passenger), and, of course, couldn’t understand her: Wouldn’t it be awesome to create a pair of glasses that transcribes voices in real time and displays the text on the lenses? After some brief research, I have been beaten to that punch already. I downloaded the free app for iPhone and the transcriptions are pretty solid. Haven’t ordered glasses yet as they aren’t cheap, but can see myself getting them eventually as I am completely deaf in right ear and rapidly losing hearing in left—cochlear implant has failed to be a viable option for me. Anyway, apologies for being long-winded. Here’s the link: XRAI Glass | Life. Subtitled Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with these products. Just intrigued by the idea. -Kevin
Yes, that is really neat. I wonder what happens when you need prescription glasses like I do. I have looked into speech to text software as I am losing hearing in my only good ear. I have had some days where I'm completely deaf for a while. Very unpleasant. An app that I have played with is Otter - works well in my experiments but I haven't used in real life yet. You do have to look down at iPhone to read which is not great. The glasses would fix that but I need prescription, LOL
They actually have a pair that is prescription ready and interchangeable. Seems like they have thought of everything.
@Patricia Idaho, I am on my 2nd implant in the same ear since the first one was defective. Speech comprehension not so good as voices are very distorted through it and haven’t “cleared up” yet. Other users say that will happen with time and patience, which is challenging because it’s just not effective for on-line conference calls and one-on-one calls for work. Hoping it will eventually work out, but colloquially, I need every tool available in the shed for this beast!
This is very cool and a great example of how tech can help out people with disabilities. Also, Otter is one of the best transcription services out there. I use it regularly (not for Menieres) and it's great.
I am playing around with this tech. I have not purchased the glasses but I'm using the XRAI Glass app on my iPhone for voice to text. I found it worked decent but my wife was too far away for my iPhone to "hear" everything with the built-in mic so I purchased these microphones . They are very good and hard to believe they are only $15. Last night my hearing was very bad so my wife wore one of the mics and I put the little receiver on my iPhone and started XRAI Glass. It worked extremely well! For sure it is not the same as being able to hear of course but it is one option to explore and experiment with, as I gradually go completely deaf.