We likely all remember Google Glass, the ill-fated — though well-intentioned — brand of smart glasses developed and distributed by Google. After a great deal of criticism, the prototype officially stopped production in early 2015.
Nearly 10 years later, the infamous Google Glass was resurrected. Well, sort of.
At the annual tech trade show CES 2024, a new product was introduced to the public, promising to revolutionize the way deaf, hard of hearing, elderly and any individual who wants to improve their comprehension of spoken communication interacts.
See The Conversation with TranscribeGlass™
Introducing TranscribeGlass™, the new, affordable real-time captioning glasses designed and built for people with disabilities.
The wearable assistive technology (AT) device is comfortable and snaps onto any pair of glasses with an easy to view, heads-up display that shows closed captions from any source in a user’s field of vision.
By connecting to third-party application programming interfaces (APIs) for translation, such as a user’s favorite text-to-speech software or live captioning service, the hands-free device accurately displays captions for the listener to view in near-real-time during a conversation, meeting, movie theater showing or more!
TranscribeGlass™ works by describing what it hears, then projecting the text onto a tiny transparent display hovering in eye sight onto glasses frames. The lightweight model’s battery life is also set to last users a full day.
Flexible Features
TranscribeGlass™ is customizable for the wearer in a variety of ways. Caption positioning can be adjusted to the user’s preferred location in eyesight, and full control is offered as the captions’ font size can be changed to be bigger or smaller, along with scrolling speed.
Minimal eye strain is optimized as captions can be adjusted to be right on top of the speaker, as there’s no need to avoid eye contact or view outside of your current line of vision to the speaker. And, with the use of the TranscribeGlass™ app, users can connect to any caption source and save conversation transcripts for easy viewing.
And finally, sí, oui, yes — you can use TranscribeGlass™ to convert foreign languages into your native language — as easy as uno, dos, tres!
Join the Waitlist
Currently, TranscribeGlass™ is patent-pending, and interested testers can sign up here to be one of the first to test out the TranscribeGlass™ beta version. TranscribeGlass™ is anticipated to launch by the end of 2024. For more information, visit: https://www.transcribeglass.com/#/.
We’re excited and hopeful about the future of closed-captioning products translating speech in near-real-time for individuals with disabilities. The possibilities are endless, and we look forward to seeing what’s next in this space for those who are deaf or hard of hearing.