of dan scar, from x ray glass, who said he had an a ha moment when his granddad started losing his hearing. it was just a little epiphany moment where i thought, hang on a second, he watches tv all the time with subtitles on. why can t we subtitle the world? the way it works is the glasses are tethered to smartphones with an app, which turns the speech into text, and that s displayed on the inside of the lenses and it s causing a sensation. it s powerful. i can t understate the power and importance for people who are hard of hearing all over the world to feel that they don t have to solely rely on lip reading any more, and it s a big moment. this is just the start. dan has big plans to adapt the software so that it s able to translate languages, voice tones, accents and pitch and for many, this is an opportunity to be involved in conversations
i can t understate the power and importance for people who are hard of hearing all over the world to feel that they don t have to solely rely on lip reading any more, and it s a big moment. this is just the start. dan has big plans to adapt the software so that it s able to translate languages, voice tones, accents and pitch and for many, this is an opportunity to be involved in conversations for the first time ever. i might not quite catch everything, but this is going to mean- a real time narrative which enables me to be informed, to be involved, to make decisions, because i know what is being said. to help perfect the software, x ray glass is hoping to recruit alpha testers who either can t lip read or struggle when multiple conversations are taking place at the same time. wendy urquhart, bbc news.
what people are talking about. it s the brainchild of dan scar, from xrai glass, who says he had an a ha! moment when his granddad started losing his hearing. there was just a little epiphany moment, where i thought, hang on a second, he watches tv all the time with subtitles on. why can t we subtitle the world? the way it works is the glasses are tethered to smartphones with an app, which turns the speech into text, and that s displayed on the inside of the lenses and it s causing a sensation. it s powerful. i can t understate the power and the importance for people who are hard of hearing all over the world to feel that they don t have to solely rely on lip reading any more, and it s a big moment. this is just the start. dan has big plans to adapt the software so that it s able to translate languages, voice tones, accents and pitch, and, for many, this is an opportunity to be
any more, and it s a big moment. this is just the start. dan has big plans to adapt the software so that it s able to translate languages, voice tones, accents and pitch and for many, this is an opportunity to be involved in conversations for the first time ever. i might not quite catch everything, but this is going to mean- a real time narrative which enables me to be informed, to be involved, to make decisions, because i know what is being said. to help perfect the software, x ray glass is hoping to recruit alpha testers who either can t lip read or struggle when multiple conversations are taking place at the same time. wendy urquhart, bbc news. that is it from us for now. thank
which means those who are deaf or hard of hearing can actually see what people are talking about. it s the brainchild of dan scar, from x ray glass, who said he had an aha moment when his granddad started losing his hearing. it was just a little epiphany moment where i thought, hang on a second, he watches tv all the time with subtitles on. why can t we subtitle the world? the way it works is the glasses are tethered to smartphones with an app, which turns the speech into text, and that s displayed on the inside of the lenses and it s causing a sensation. it s powerful. i can t understate the power and importance for people who are hard of hearing all over the world to feel that they don t have to solely rely on lip reading any more, and it s a big moment. this is just the start. dan has big plans to adapt the software so that it s able to translate languages, voice tones, accents and pitch and for many,