3D-printed sunglasses may look cool, but XRAI Glass can automatically turn spoken audio into close captioning for the hearing impaired. These AI-powered augmented reality smartglasses are paired with a smartphone and then software analyzes an audio feed from the microphone on the device and sends it to your smartphone.
The app running on the smartphone turns that that audio into closed captions and then, using Nreal software, project those subtitles into the real world. Unfortunately, there are some issues with the current model, which uses Amazon’s Alexa transcription service. One of them is understanding group conversations when people speak over each other, while another requires the user to be in a quiet environment to function accurately.
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It’s just so difficult when there are so many people around you and you’re trying to keep track of the different conversations which are going on. It’s got to the point now where he literally just sits in silence. And I thought, well, hang on a second. He watches TV all the time with subtitles. Why can’t we subtitle the world? What our software effectively does is it takes an audio feed from the microphone on these glasses [and] sends it down to the phone,” said Dan Scarfe, Founder of XRAI Glass.
