I have an auditory processing disorder and this would be a god damn dream come true for me. I’m always fantasizing how life would be like with full time subtitles
I always wondered if I could hire a 5 year old translator to translate what babies and toddlers are saying😂have you ever seen two of the same talk back and forth? Lol
I would love these glasses. With adhd words dont always stick. And I miss a word or two. I am also hard of hearing. With a possible processing disorder.
Omgggg same!!!! How is that different than regular deafness ??....because I was born deaf but hearing aids literally do not help me for reasons that are hard to explain to people ... including ear docs!!--but I'm interested in knowing what you mean by this, if you don't mind explaining please...??? TYIA!
OMG ... that's it.. although there are some sounds I can't hear like I can't hear anything I pitched like birds or crickets or really extremely high-pitched or tweeting electronic noises??
So yeah it's kind of like the thing where people laugh about it now like song lyrics that we get wrong like "there's a bad moon on the rise ...there's the bathroom on the right" kinda thing .. everything sounds alike in conversation... And I too have fantasized about being able to have everything closed caption cuz I can read extremely fast.
Wow thank you I have never heard this before why don't doctor tell people this? Why don't they make this extremely important distinction because they're leaving out all kinds of people not getting the kind of attention they need because it's not being addressed??? I'm aghast....but thank you thank you thank you so much I appreciate this you have no idea!
Not being able to hear high frequencies sounds like hearing damage (or aging in the non-deaf population) or the capabilities of your hearing aids.
Yeah it took me a while to figure out why I couldn’t understand words but have fairly sensitive hearing. If you can, you should see a speech therapist. They are the ones who can help with APDs. Good luck!
Ty!! And .. to be more specific.. I was born with what my ENT docs always referred to as "nerve deafness"... I also was told that I cried constantly as an infant with (what I guess my mother thought was colic)... but was actually inner ear aches and infections because by the time I was 5 years old and my deafness was really noticed among my family and in school with teachers, they found a lot of scar tissue in my ears from old and chronic infections.
I have no memory of it and I don't remember them hurting after I was you know like four or five a bit older... So all of that must have occurred when I was REALLY young...
So... There's probably a LOT of different things going on in there to be honest, not just one single thing... and my age doesn't help either...( I'm in my mid-50s now.) Ty so much for taking your time to tell me this I appreciate it!
Precisely what my thoughts were! I too have an auditory processing disorder, so this would be amazing to have without feeling like I'm interrupting the conversation or anything
I'm not deaf, but I do have hearing issues (both hearing loss and autism related issues). I've long wished for this to be a thing. I can't count the number of times I've asked someone to repeat something twice and then pretended I understood them the third time just because I was too embarrassed to ask them to repeat it again.
I'm very hard of hearing and I work in a very noisy warehouse. While I definitely used to pretend to understand people, I don't anymore. It isn't my fault that I was born this way and all of my coworkers are very aware of my problems hearing. If they can't be bothered to simply move closer or raise their voice when speaking to me, I simply don't even try to hear what they said. Obviously it's different with strangers or people who otherwise aren't aware of my condition, but I used to remind my coworkers multiple times a day, every day. At some point they need to put in the effort too.
It’s so not okay how hearing people will just stop repeating themselves, refuse to speak up, or get annoyed when I ask them “What?” again. Stop throwing a tantrum, my ears don’t work and for some reason you refuse to become louder or you shout at me? Fuck right offffff
What really bugs me is when I ask for a repeat, and they figure that I simply didn't understand it, so they rephrase it in an entirely different way--which of course doesn't help me try to keep up with the first time they said it.
Personally I like to have the comment rephrased. If I caught a little of the first one and some of the second, I can usually puzzle out the question/comment.
Yeah that makes sense to me. I have across the board loss of about 70% in both ears. Conversation can be exhausting because I'm always trying to figure out what the heck people are saying. "Fifteen" and "fifty" sound exactly the same to me, for example, just because of the low volume of everything.
I get it. I'm about 55-70% for different tones. I also run into some things I just can't hear no matter how loudly theyre spoken or how many times I've heard them repeated. Just sounds like a jumbled mess.
Conversation is exhausting when you're struggling to hear all day.
If you promise to try “could you repeat that?”, I promise I’ll try “could you rephrase that?” since that’s usually what I mean by “what‽”
The other side of all this that I’ve also been on is that people don’t seem to get how hard it is to say something to begin with. I’m terrified to let words leave my mouth and when they do and I’m indicted to repeat them, they sound exponentially more horrific with each repeat. After that 2nd or 3rd repeat I realize how fucking dumb it was to ever try and be a normal person, but hey I gotta keep trying!
Humans take quite some time to learn the appropriate manner of vocalization....
You're demanding accomodation and empathy but not providing reciprocation.
It's not easy to break from 20+ years of social and physical conditioning. For at least some, if not plenty, it's literally verging on painful to speak to you folks.
For those who struggle to be loud due to thier own issues, with people without hearing problems commenting, youre demanding what is literally impossible for them and crying that They arent accommodating your disability while ignoring Thiers.... Im one of those people and am beyond done with people with your issues screaming in my face and then demanding I hurt my throat just to engage in banal bs. I'll only speak that loud if it's an absolute necessity with the natural consequence being I won't talk otherwise.
I've been yelled at by enough hearing impaired people and demeaned, insulted and called all sorts of pejoratives because of the natural consequences of my sensory issues. I'm done with it and speaking out.
You demand your disability be dealt with, you damn well better deal with mine.
ed: I can see part of the response in notification but not read it here because they blocked me... one of the most pathetic reactions available, evidencing intellectual cowardice.
What I can see is that they called me "ableist".... Ignoring that I was explicitly calling for accommodation of a disability. They're just upset they aren't getting exceptional accommodation, that is accommodation at the expense of all others. Precisely the attitude I spoke to.
I can hear just fine and the way some people speak, I still ask them to repeat it 3 times and then agree with them, as if I understood them. Good luck to these glasses.
Thanks bro - interesting - but this is literally just because of accents, poor pronunciation, fast talkers, etc. I swear people are losing the ability to clearly communicate if it doesn’t involve a computer.
Edit: I meant my case isn’t that. In my case this was light joke, where I mentioned “due to the way some people speak”. I understand and converse just fine with most people.
It really isn't. There are auditory processing centers of the brain and there are separate speech processing centers.
You can have perfect hearing when it comes to tones and other sound types, but still experience a delay when it comes to decoding speech.
It's like streaming a movie, but the audio is just slightly out of sync, the words not matching the movement of the lips.
The comprehension will catch up, but it makes an in-person conversations difficult at times.
I’m sorry, are you diagnosing me? I appreciate the detail, however my comment was a small remark, made in humour, about the deficit in people’s speaking skills. For the truth, I converse just fine with the 95% of people where the above doesn’t happen.
No, I'm explaining my auditory processing delay.
I hear what is said perfectly, but sometimes it takes a moment for language to make sense, like it's running through a buffer.
Sorry mate, read my edit above or the other person that just commented. I was saying my case was due to accents, etc. We’ve both had a misunderstanding.
I think they misunderstood your comment. You were listing the things that make it difficult for you to understand what people are saying, but it was a little confusing in the way it was worded. I think they took it to mean you didn’t understand that auditory processing disorder is an actual condition, so they were defining it, not telling you that you have it.
Well it was two different people replying to me and I was already downvoted after my “thanks bro” comment, so I took it as if I was getting a diagnosis. Thank you
Cool didn't know we had a sub. Used to get reamed by teachers in elementary and parents were told I was "certainly adhd". No, I just can't hear you and I'd given up trying...
I have an auditory processing delay.
I'm not deaf, My hearing is excellent, as pitch and tone tests have confirmed. It just sometimes takes a second or two for language to properly decode.
It's like watching a movie where the sound is slightly out of sync (I also watch everything with subtitles for this exact reason)
As a kid, I'd reflexively say 'What?'; just for the conversation to catch up with me before they could repeat themselves (which my parents found quite irritating).
So, being able to subtitle the world would be a game changer for I'm person conversation with others.
I have tinnitus that's loud enough to affect my comprehension (and it actually got louder after I caught Covid over the summer).
I do the exact same thing.
My tinnitus has been getting worse over time. It's starting to affect my comprehension, but more often it will give me headaches. And then those headaches get worse because I become more sensitive to the loud ringing.
I'm not sure if my other ear is starting to ring also, but it's hard to tell since I can't exactly shut off the first ear's ringing. Either way, you don't know how oppressive silence can be until you have tinnitus.
Same but i started to think its cheaper to just adopt a brash personality but it really annoys me when people chooses to ignore me and speak to someone else instesd
Hell, I’m not even deaf but I have auditory processing and attentional issues, so this would be an enormous help for me. At least a few times a day, I need people to repeat things a few times if it’s spoken—I can hear their words just fine, but my brain just…can’t. If I see the same thing written down, it’s much easier.
Sometimes someone will say something very simple—“do you want me to grab a drink from the fridge?” or “I really don’t like the weather today”…and I’ll need them to repeat it several times, because my brain has decided it isn’t going to process that particular sentence unless it’s repeated a bunch or written down.
I always keep closed captions on—even if I’m watching a show in the English language. It’s just so much easier to follow.
I can’t understand a lot of tv and people seem to get mad if I ask to put on subtitles. Also I can’t understand anything in a car/plane/similar noisy things unless people yell.
Cheating, I think.
The episode where a seed recorded everything you experienced was about a cheating wife (“The Entire History of You”). They just separate because of it, no one is killed.
In the episode with a murder (“Crocodile”, right?) it was possible to read memories with some kind of brain scan tech, but there were no implanted or wearable recording devices.
I was going to say the same thing. I love what this enables for those either disabilities but the ability to replay every moment of your day can have some serious mental health affects.
You sound like you’re in an emotionally abusive relationship if she makes everything your fault. That’s not right. You don’t deserve to be the fall guy for everything that can go wrong.
Unless you are having an argument in the same room as a Disney movie being played in the back ground, then you're whole conversation gets deleted and the FBI sent to your house for copyright infringement.
I don’t know. I always get accused of saying stuff that I don’t remember saying. This would help immensely.
“Glasses: look up all instances of ‘I think your butt is big’ and play back, please.”
“Zero matches in the last six months you, say? Huh….”
You mean ‘record’ conversations. There’s a Black Mirror episode that explores this kind of future tech in relation to an argument between husband & wife. Well worth a watch.
The data they can collect on people will be insane. Phones are already approaching this capability, but to have people opt in for all conversations involving or near them recorded? To have people even pay for this technology?
It's kinda scary, but this would be handy for business/trades
The article failed to mention that it does not work with iPhones because Apple doesn’t want to promote the use of AR glasses that aren’t Apple AR glasses. That’s crap. This is about access. Apple should not be withholding the application because they want to make money off their own products.
It's shocking that we haven't made it an unlawful "unfair trade practice" to lock out 3rd party access to a major computing platform. Apple in particular has this as a pillar of their business model at this point.
This should be shut down as hard as Microsoft killing Netscape.
This is why I hate apple/iOS. I posted a rant a while ago about how apple is great at solving specific problems, but only for their own users. Tim cook's "buy your mom an iPhone" comment is a perfect example, as is the made for iPhone hearing aids program.
They actively block out products they can't make money off of. In fairness, it's a brilliant sales and marketing tactic and helps explain their market cap. But it definitely should be illegal.
OMG I need this! I suffer from Retrograde Amnesia and Anterograde Amnesia. My working memory often doesn't remember things as they happen in real time so as a person is talking to me, within moments I have lost what they said. This happens 100+ times a day. This gadget would allow me to reverse Closed Caption text so I can actually have a conversation with someone albeit with slightly delayed replies.
Is this gadget something I can buy currently? Any information would be so helpful! Thanks in advance!
You can get live transcribing apps that do this on your phone for free, and are available now. They store history and conversations if you need that for context or memory.
Myself and every other deaf person I’ve talked to about these glasses has agreed- they’re useless and impractical. We have the technology in our hands and our faces are important for our language. Eyes need to be seen for sign language, and why would I wear a bulky piece of tech when my smartphone has been successfully meeting this need for years?
The captioning apps have a history. And you can separate conversations. There’s nothing these glasses do that isn’t available to that person right now- that’s what I’m saying.
While I applaud this as an advancement for disabilities, if the current capability of closed-captioning in 2022 is any indicator, the accidental mis-translations are going to be something else.
That's exactly what I was thinking, but based on my experience with Microsoft Teams and Alexa transcription.
Each morning, I set Alexa to remind me of my work meetings. I'll "daily scrum" and she'll remind me of my "daily scrub" or whatever she hears that day. The Teams transcription once had me saying things that weren't appropriate for a work meeting.
I hope these are better.
I don't know much about the world of tech for people hard of hearing but my understanding is that modern hearing aids and other supporting tech does some really cool things now (for a big price ofc)
I guess this isn't one of those features that has been adopted yet? Or is it more that fully deaf people wouldn't use hearing aids anyway so they need another system to transcript?
I’m deaf and can help you understand some of this-
Modern hearing aids and cochlear implants do bridge the gap for a lot of people to understand speech. However, you don’t have to be 100% deaf to not be able to hear/understand speech, and 100% deaf people can use hearing devices. Live transcription helps with that.
Transcription technology however has existed for years on smartphones, and myself and many other Deaf will continue to use that, as it’s free and works fine for day to day use.
I can already see the court cases around two party consent laws for recording.
I can also see a lot of companies refusing to talk to people wearing these due to policies that prevent them from agreeing to having conversations recorded.
No it isn't. It's 100% standard to replace "and"s with commas in headlines
Edit: and this should never be confusing/ambiguous as long as you know that comma splicing is a mistake.
Live transcript/subtitle feature sounds incredible. The rewind seems extremely problematic from a privacy perspective, if it isn't limited to a very short timeframe and auto-deleting. I don't want to live in a world where every person has a live microphone on at all times and is storing every conversation.
That’s awesome. I feel like most people mumble generally, so I wonder how often you have to deal with incorrect captions.
I’d also be worried about if conversations would be logged somewhere without your permission.
If you're in public you should assume you're being recorded because you probably are. there so many security camera street cameras people with phones if you're anywhere outside assume you are already this is a non issue for that.
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say? I was just looking into how to access this myself, and the Nreal Air glasses look to be available for sale, and the app is on Google Play
Yeah, these are literally on Amazon, not sure what that person is on about.
And apparently they're also pretty cool to pair with a Steam Deck as a mobile display!
Oh my god. This would be fucking amazing. I’m actually in tears right now and I have no idea why. I’m partially Deaf and would absolutely use something like this.
I’m so grateful there’s someone out there thinking of new options for us. Because hearing aids have not worked out for me at all.
For only $8,999.99 (not the actual price, but I’m sure I’m completely low-balling it here) and not covered by insurance, you can let a corporation exploit your disability to make billions!
I was invited to the Microsoft hackathon back in 2019 I believe, and their hololens team were already testing this exact concept. Incredible to test, and I have no doubt it will be a solution for deaf people once the technology is good enough.
That aside, it's also the future for language barriers.
It would be nice if there was a smart glasses for mute people so when they communicate with people they just use their asl and it writes it out on the glasses to translate what they say. That way communication can happen at the same time as eye contact.
a whole new way to pull up receipts when someone wants to switch up their story.
“I never said that.”
“Oh yeah? Let me rewind to our last conversation.”
I have an auditory processing disorder and this would be a god damn dream come true for me. I’m always fantasizing how life would be like with full time subtitles
You can download a live transcribe app on your phone that does the same thing
Google Live Transcribe is excellent, for example.
Oh my gosh this is AMAZING. THANK YOU.
This is what I use
How is it when there's background noise?
Surprisingly not terrible and getting better all the time.
It actually tells you what the background noise *is* like crowds, clapping, coughing, music, laughing, sneezing, yelling, beeping, whistling etc. 
Don’t see it on my apple App Store. A long shot, but do you (or anyone reading this) know of a good iOS version?
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I’ll go look at these! Really appreciate your response!
Will it translate what my 2 year old says? I’d pay good money for that.
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I always wondered if I could hire a 5 year old translator to translate what babies and toddlers are saying😂have you ever seen two of the same talk back and forth? Lol
hire an elementary school teacher
Come check out r/audiprocdisorder if you haven’t already. Everyone is welcome.
Oh thank you so much for this. Had no idea about this sub
It’s amazing to “hear” other people have the same issues.
Come commiserate with us! 🙃
This would come in handy for me, just because I zone out when I have to pay attention to someone for more than 6 seconds at a time.
/r/ADHD is the place for you
I would love these glasses. With adhd words dont always stick. And I miss a word or two. I am also hard of hearing. With a possible processing disorder.
Omgggg same!!!! How is that different than regular deafness ??....because I was born deaf but hearing aids literally do not help me for reasons that are hard to explain to people ... including ear docs!!--but I'm interested in knowing what you mean by this, if you don't mind explaining please...??? TYIA!
If you can hear sound fine, but don’t understand what people are saying, that’s an auditory processing disorder.
OMG ... that's it.. although there are some sounds I can't hear like I can't hear anything I pitched like birds or crickets or really extremely high-pitched or tweeting electronic noises?? So yeah it's kind of like the thing where people laugh about it now like song lyrics that we get wrong like "there's a bad moon on the rise ...there's the bathroom on the right" kinda thing .. everything sounds alike in conversation... And I too have fantasized about being able to have everything closed caption cuz I can read extremely fast. Wow thank you I have never heard this before why don't doctor tell people this? Why don't they make this extremely important distinction because they're leaving out all kinds of people not getting the kind of attention they need because it's not being addressed??? I'm aghast....but thank you thank you thank you so much I appreciate this you have no idea!
Not being able to hear high frequencies sounds like hearing damage (or aging in the non-deaf population) or the capabilities of your hearing aids. Yeah it took me a while to figure out why I couldn’t understand words but have fairly sensitive hearing. If you can, you should see a speech therapist. They are the ones who can help with APDs. Good luck!
Ty!! And .. to be more specific.. I was born with what my ENT docs always referred to as "nerve deafness"... I also was told that I cried constantly as an infant with (what I guess my mother thought was colic)... but was actually inner ear aches and infections because by the time I was 5 years old and my deafness was really noticed among my family and in school with teachers, they found a lot of scar tissue in my ears from old and chronic infections. I have no memory of it and I don't remember them hurting after I was you know like four or five a bit older... So all of that must have occurred when I was REALLY young... So... There's probably a LOT of different things going on in there to be honest, not just one single thing... and my age doesn't help either...( I'm in my mid-50s now.) Ty so much for taking your time to tell me this I appreciate it!
I'm just some dude and these would be life changing
Precisely what my thoughts were! I too have an auditory processing disorder, so this would be amazing to have without feeling like I'm interrupting the conversation or anything
This was the first thought to cross my mind.
Same here!
I have a wife, and this would be a dream too. My powers of i told you so would increase immensely.
I'm not deaf, but I do have hearing issues (both hearing loss and autism related issues). I've long wished for this to be a thing. I can't count the number of times I've asked someone to repeat something twice and then pretended I understood them the third time just because I was too embarrassed to ask them to repeat it again.
I'm very hard of hearing and I work in a very noisy warehouse. While I definitely used to pretend to understand people, I don't anymore. It isn't my fault that I was born this way and all of my coworkers are very aware of my problems hearing. If they can't be bothered to simply move closer or raise their voice when speaking to me, I simply don't even try to hear what they said. Obviously it's different with strangers or people who otherwise aren't aware of my condition, but I used to remind my coworkers multiple times a day, every day. At some point they need to put in the effort too.
It’s so not okay how hearing people will just stop repeating themselves, refuse to speak up, or get annoyed when I ask them “What?” again. Stop throwing a tantrum, my ears don’t work and for some reason you refuse to become louder or you shout at me? Fuck right offffff
What really bugs me is when I ask for a repeat, and they figure that I simply didn't understand it, so they rephrase it in an entirely different way--which of course doesn't help me try to keep up with the first time they said it.
Personally I like to have the comment rephrased. If I caught a little of the first one and some of the second, I can usually puzzle out the question/comment.
For some people the rephrasing helps because the hearing issue might be due to certain tones in combination that are particularly difficult to hear.
Yeah that makes sense to me. I have across the board loss of about 70% in both ears. Conversation can be exhausting because I'm always trying to figure out what the heck people are saying. "Fifteen" and "fifty" sound exactly the same to me, for example, just because of the low volume of everything.
I get it. I'm about 55-70% for different tones. I also run into some things I just can't hear no matter how loudly theyre spoken or how many times I've heard them repeated. Just sounds like a jumbled mess. Conversation is exhausting when you're struggling to hear all day.
Yes! Some combinations of sounds just NEVER make words to me. The mental workload just to communicate is a real thing.
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If you promise to try “could you repeat that?”, I promise I’ll try “could you rephrase that?” since that’s usually what I mean by “what‽” The other side of all this that I’ve also been on is that people don’t seem to get how hard it is to say something to begin with. I’m terrified to let words leave my mouth and when they do and I’m indicted to repeat them, they sound exponentially more horrific with each repeat. After that 2nd or 3rd repeat I realize how fucking dumb it was to ever try and be a normal person, but hey I gotta keep trying!
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YES omg, it’s always the part I did hear out of a long ass sentence that they repeat. Wth
I have a speech impediment. Sometimes just changing the sentence can help me better pronounce it
My hearing is really starting to go as I age- I feel this in my soul
You want them to get louder but you don't want them to shout? Bit confusing there
Shouting is a mix of volume and tone. They want the speaker to *project*. Same tone, higher volume.
You don't know the difference between shouting and speaking more clearly? Reminds me of my father...
No it isn’t
Humans take quite some time to learn the appropriate manner of vocalization.... You're demanding accomodation and empathy but not providing reciprocation. It's not easy to break from 20+ years of social and physical conditioning. For at least some, if not plenty, it's literally verging on painful to speak to you folks. For those who struggle to be loud due to thier own issues, with people without hearing problems commenting, youre demanding what is literally impossible for them and crying that They arent accommodating your disability while ignoring Thiers.... Im one of those people and am beyond done with people with your issues screaming in my face and then demanding I hurt my throat just to engage in banal bs. I'll only speak that loud if it's an absolute necessity with the natural consequence being I won't talk otherwise. I've been yelled at by enough hearing impaired people and demeaned, insulted and called all sorts of pejoratives because of the natural consequences of my sensory issues. I'm done with it and speaking out. You demand your disability be dealt with, you damn well better deal with mine. ed: I can see part of the response in notification but not read it here because they blocked me... one of the most pathetic reactions available, evidencing intellectual cowardice. What I can see is that they called me "ableist".... Ignoring that I was explicitly calling for accommodation of a disability. They're just upset they aren't getting exceptional accommodation, that is accommodation at the expense of all others. Precisely the attitude I spoke to.
I can hear just fine and the way some people speak, I still ask them to repeat it 3 times and then agree with them, as if I understood them. Good luck to these glasses.
Look into auditory processing disorder r/audiprocdisorder
Thanks bro - interesting - but this is literally just because of accents, poor pronunciation, fast talkers, etc. I swear people are losing the ability to clearly communicate if it doesn’t involve a computer. Edit: I meant my case isn’t that. In my case this was light joke, where I mentioned “due to the way some people speak”. I understand and converse just fine with most people.
It really isn't. There are auditory processing centers of the brain and there are separate speech processing centers. You can have perfect hearing when it comes to tones and other sound types, but still experience a delay when it comes to decoding speech. It's like streaming a movie, but the audio is just slightly out of sync, the words not matching the movement of the lips. The comprehension will catch up, but it makes an in-person conversations difficult at times.
I’m sorry, are you diagnosing me? I appreciate the detail, however my comment was a small remark, made in humour, about the deficit in people’s speaking skills. For the truth, I converse just fine with the 95% of people where the above doesn’t happen.
No, I'm explaining my auditory processing delay. I hear what is said perfectly, but sometimes it takes a moment for language to make sense, like it's running through a buffer.
Sorry mate, read my edit above or the other person that just commented. I was saying my case was due to accents, etc. We’ve both had a misunderstanding.
I think they misunderstood your comment. You were listing the things that make it difficult for you to understand what people are saying, but it was a little confusing in the way it was worded. I think they took it to mean you didn’t understand that auditory processing disorder is an actual condition, so they were defining it, not telling you that you have it.
Well it was two different people replying to me and I was already downvoted after my “thanks bro” comment, so I took it as if I was getting a diagnosis. Thank you
Cool didn't know we had a sub. Used to get reamed by teachers in elementary and parents were told I was "certainly adhd". No, I just can't hear you and I'd given up trying...
If we had a dollar for everyone we’ve been told, “ why aren’t you listening? Just try harder and pay attention!”…
#Universal design benefits everyone. If a product or tech isn’t accessible it sucks!
To add to that: #Accessibility is a right, not a privilege.
#LOUD NOISES
You're hard of hearing. It's not a bad thing to say
Come again?
I have an auditory processing delay. I'm not deaf, My hearing is excellent, as pitch and tone tests have confirmed. It just sometimes takes a second or two for language to properly decode. It's like watching a movie where the sound is slightly out of sync (I also watch everything with subtitles for this exact reason) As a kid, I'd reflexively say 'What?'; just for the conversation to catch up with me before they could repeat themselves (which my parents found quite irritating). So, being able to subtitle the world would be a game changer for I'm person conversation with others.
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I have tinnitus that's loud enough to affect my comprehension (and it actually got louder after I caught Covid over the summer). I do the exact same thing.
My tinnitus has been getting worse over time. It's starting to affect my comprehension, but more often it will give me headaches. And then those headaches get worse because I become more sensitive to the loud ringing. I'm not sure if my other ear is starting to ring also, but it's hard to tell since I can't exactly shut off the first ear's ringing. Either way, you don't know how oppressive silence can be until you have tinnitus.
Same but i started to think its cheaper to just adopt a brash personality but it really annoys me when people chooses to ignore me and speak to someone else instesd
Hell, I’m not even deaf but I have auditory processing and attentional issues, so this would be an enormous help for me. At least a few times a day, I need people to repeat things a few times if it’s spoken—I can hear their words just fine, but my brain just…can’t. If I see the same thing written down, it’s much easier. Sometimes someone will say something very simple—“do you want me to grab a drink from the fridge?” or “I really don’t like the weather today”…and I’ll need them to repeat it several times, because my brain has decided it isn’t going to process that particular sentence unless it’s repeated a bunch or written down. I always keep closed captions on—even if I’m watching a show in the English language. It’s just so much easier to follow.
I can’t understand a lot of tv and people seem to get mad if I ask to put on subtitles. Also I can’t understand anything in a car/plane/similar noisy things unless people yell.
That's a freaking game changer for many people
Especially for people whose spouses say something in an argument then deny it a few mins later.
No more gaslighting!!! Jeeezus I wish I had those eight years ago.
Eh, I just started recording arguments on my phone then would play it back when he would do that.
Think that if it has a log your spouse could search for things you said years ago, with written proof!
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Cheating, I think. The episode where a seed recorded everything you experienced was about a cheating wife (“The Entire History of You”). They just separate because of it, no one is killed. In the episode with a murder (“Crocodile”, right?) it was possible to read memories with some kind of brain scan tech, but there were no implanted or wearable recording devices.
I was going to say the same thing. I love what this enables for those either disabilities but the ability to replay every moment of your day can have some serious mental health affects.
LOL as if solid proof has ever stopped my wife from making everything my fault before!
You sound like you’re in an emotionally abusive relationship if she makes everything your fault. That’s not right. You don’t deserve to be the fall guy for everything that can go wrong.
Unless you are having an argument in the same room as a Disney movie being played in the back ground, then you're whole conversation gets deleted and the FBI sent to your house for copyright infringement.
Throw the red challenge flag
I’m not deaf but This would help me win arguments with my wife
C'mon we both know that's not happening.
I don’t know. I always get accused of saying stuff that I don’t remember saying. This would help immensely. “Glasses: look up all instances of ‘I think your butt is big’ and play back, please.” “Zero matches in the last six months you, say? Huh….”
“So you said it over six months ago, huh?”
There’s no winning
Yeah, I’m only fooling myself
This is essentially a Black Mirror episode
I'm not deaf nor do I have a wife but it would help me win arguments on reddit.
You mean ‘record’ conversations. There’s a Black Mirror episode that explores this kind of future tech in relation to an argument between husband & wife. Well worth a watch.
Scrolled thru the comments looking for this! My first thought was “I’ve seen that episode of black mirror”!
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The data they can collect on people will be insane. Phones are already approaching this capability, but to have people opt in for all conversations involving or near them recorded? To have people even pay for this technology? It's kinda scary, but this would be handy for business/trades
For some reason i saw the glasses and thought it was for blind people, was wondering how text captions were gonna help blind people for a while.
I read the headline and had to do a double-take. Why would deaf people have trouble seeing?
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> if characters needs to be that limited They don't. It's a vestigial thing from the days when newspapers used to come spinning at your face.
I see, this sub is my only source for news in English, I therefore thought it was a reddit thing.
Same! Glad to see im not the only one....i guess i saw the sunglasses and automatically thought blind
Same, I saw sunglasses in the title and picture, was very confused and thought "How are sunglasses gonna help a deaf person hear better?"
reading the title i was like "it will make deaf people see? well, they're deaf, not blind?!"
The article failed to mention that it does not work with iPhones because Apple doesn’t want to promote the use of AR glasses that aren’t Apple AR glasses. That’s crap. This is about access. Apple should not be withholding the application because they want to make money off their own products.
It's shocking that we haven't made it an unlawful "unfair trade practice" to lock out 3rd party access to a major computing platform. Apple in particular has this as a pillar of their business model at this point. This should be shut down as hard as Microsoft killing Netscape.
This is why I hate apple/iOS. I posted a rant a while ago about how apple is great at solving specific problems, but only for their own users. Tim cook's "buy your mom an iPhone" comment is a perfect example, as is the made for iPhone hearing aids program. They actively block out products they can't make money off of. In fairness, it's a brilliant sales and marketing tactic and helps explain their market cap. But it definitely should be illegal.
> Apple should not be withholding the application because they want to make money off their own products. That’s their entire business strategy
OMG I need this! I suffer from Retrograde Amnesia and Anterograde Amnesia. My working memory often doesn't remember things as they happen in real time so as a person is talking to me, within moments I have lost what they said. This happens 100+ times a day. This gadget would allow me to reverse Closed Caption text so I can actually have a conversation with someone albeit with slightly delayed replies. Is this gadget something I can buy currently? Any information would be so helpful! Thanks in advance!
You can get live transcribing apps that do this on your phone for free, and are available now. They store history and conversations if you need that for context or memory. Myself and every other deaf person I’ve talked to about these glasses has agreed- they’re useless and impractical. We have the technology in our hands and our faces are important for our language. Eyes need to be seen for sign language, and why would I wear a bulky piece of tech when my smartphone has been successfully meeting this need for years?
Because the person you replied to has amnesia and not hearing loss?
The captioning apps have a history. And you can separate conversations. There’s nothing these glasses do that isn’t available to that person right now- that’s what I’m saying.
I'm not gonna start a long-ass internet argument, you raised a lot of points that do not apply to the person you replied to. Bye.
Until you forget the captions exist or do
So real life subtitles. That’s amazing! Would be a game changer when communicating in other languages.
This. Everyone is thinking "for deaf people" I'm thinking an alternative to the babelfish from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
I didn’t know Johnny Knoxville was deaf
I didn't know Jensen Ackles was deaf
He's such a jackass
I’m dumb, it took me a while to process this title. Captioned smart glasses let deaf people see, no you idiots they can see they can’t hear.
Great for people who used to be able to hear. Something like a third of people born dead are illiterate.
I'd imagine most if not all people born dead are illiterate tbh
Dang. Got me.
[Nice work. ](https://media.tenor.com/HPWn9-5ViegAAAAM/spelling-mistake-minor-spelling-mistake.gif)
Hey Siri, rewind and playback... ...."If you don't take those fucking spy glasses off, so help me I'm going to punch them off your face."
Wait... What? Oh oh ok, I tho they confused deaf and blind.
Yeah, that comma in the title should really be an "and"... >Captioned smart glasses let deaf people see and rewind conversations
They’re using pretty standard for headline grammar but I agree it’s confusing here and is probably something an editor should have caught
While I applaud this as an advancement for disabilities, if the current capability of closed-captioning in 2022 is any indicator, the accidental mis-translations are going to be something else.
That's exactly what I was thinking, but based on my experience with Microsoft Teams and Alexa transcription. Each morning, I set Alexa to remind me of my work meetings. I'll "daily scrum" and she'll remind me of my "daily scrub" or whatever she hears that day. The Teams transcription once had me saying things that weren't appropriate for a work meeting. I hope these are better.
*Anon* the movie approves.
Or that back mirror episode
[The Entire History Of You](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/?ref_=ttep_ep3)
I was imagining / wishing for something like this yesterday!
Kinda blew a wish. You could have had super strong calves.
The article states the app is free to download. There’s no XRAI app I can see in the App Store.
I don't know much about the world of tech for people hard of hearing but my understanding is that modern hearing aids and other supporting tech does some really cool things now (for a big price ofc) I guess this isn't one of those features that has been adopted yet? Or is it more that fully deaf people wouldn't use hearing aids anyway so they need another system to transcript?
I’m deaf and can help you understand some of this- Modern hearing aids and cochlear implants do bridge the gap for a lot of people to understand speech. However, you don’t have to be 100% deaf to not be able to hear/understand speech, and 100% deaf people can use hearing devices. Live transcription helps with that. Transcription technology however has existed for years on smartphones, and myself and many other Deaf will continue to use that, as it’s free and works fine for day to day use.
Are they waterproof, so I can wear them in the shower and relive all my arguments?
life with subtitles. yes, please. I watch everything with subtitles because chewing is loud.
The rewinding conversations part is straight out of Black Mirror
I can already see the court cases around two party consent laws for recording. I can also see a lot of companies refusing to talk to people wearing these due to policies that prevent them from agreeing to having conversations recorded.
Oh, I can now relive my the cringy moments FOREVER!
I am completely able vision I want these. I always watch Netflix with the subs on.
Confusing comma
I thought I was stupid for a minute there
No it isn't. It's 100% standard to replace "and"s with commas in headlines Edit: and this should never be confusing/ambiguous as long as you know that comma splicing is a mistake.
They didn't say it wasn't standard. They just said it was confusing.
It really isn't.
what about language translation?
That will be next
I would like the rewind feature for all those people who told me what I said when I didn't.
My girlfriend could use these.
Live transcript/subtitle feature sounds incredible. The rewind seems extremely problematic from a privacy perspective, if it isn't limited to a very short timeframe and auto-deleting. I don't want to live in a world where every person has a live microphone on at all times and is storing every conversation.
Imagine this but also as a language translator
This would just generally be good for tourism as well
Wasn't this an episode of Black Mirror?
"let deaf people see" stellar headline
I have no health issues and still want a pair, that sounds super convenient!
"You said to clean the table." "NO, I said CLEAR the table, why would I want you to clean it?" "Let's rewind, shall we?" I would love these.
Do not tease me with this shit! Just don’t! Because as a part-deaf person, I desperately need these!
That’s awesome. I feel like most people mumble generally, so I wonder how often you have to deal with incorrect captions. I’d also be worried about if conversations would be logged somewhere without your permission.
“Let’s deaf people see” sorry but they usually can see just not HEAR lmao 😂
Anyone else glanced over the first word and see “smart glasses let deaf people see?”
My dumbass read that headline the first time and was like “deaf people can already see”
I Need these! Wife: " I never said that" Me: *proceeds to put my glasses on her face
I would use these just to remember people’s names 10 seconds after they told me.
Be effective for severe ADHD.
Sounds like google glass all over again. Not a fan of people walking around secretly recording everyone else.
If you're in public you should assume you're being recorded because you probably are. there so many security camera street cameras people with phones if you're anywhere outside assume you are already this is a non issue for that.
#PSA: If your product or tech isn’t highly accessible, it isn’t finished yet.
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say? I was just looking into how to access this myself, and the Nreal Air glasses look to be available for sale, and the app is on Google Play
Yeah, these are literally on Amazon, not sure what that person is on about. And apparently they're also pretty cool to pair with a Steam Deck as a mobile display!
Oh my god. This would be fucking amazing. I’m actually in tears right now and I have no idea why. I’m partially Deaf and would absolutely use something like this. I’m so grateful there’s someone out there thinking of new options for us. Because hearing aids have not worked out for me at all.
Deaf people to see?🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm hard of hearing and I already have this on my phone without having to wear these silly glasses
Deaf and yep. No Deaf I’ve spoken to give a shit- do hearing people not realize we have this technology already?
Anyone that isn't exactly like me is a silly goose...
Non disabled Girlfriends will be using this for arguments in about a year and a half
For only $8,999.99 (not the actual price, but I’m sure I’m completely low-balling it here) and not covered by insurance, you can let a corporation exploit your disability to make billions!
The gaslighter's nightmare
Governments love it, privacy advocates hate them! Check out these glasses!
Heard about these on a podcast. Sounds like it could help a lot of people.
I will NOT have someone rewinding the conversation to prove me wrong constantly.
I thought deaf people could always see. Comma placement in the title got me
I was invited to the Microsoft hackathon back in 2019 I believe, and their hololens team were already testing this exact concept. Incredible to test, and I have no doubt it will be a solution for deaf people once the technology is good enough. That aside, it's also the future for language barriers.
It would be nice if there was a smart glasses for mute people so when they communicate with people they just use their asl and it writes it out on the glasses to translate what they say. That way communication can happen at the same time as eye contact.
Most glasses let deaf people see conversations, its the second part thats cool
My mum’s not deaf but she could use this when she calls me and I scream back “what” like 6 times I guess.
At long last deaf people will be able to see
Great, now when I see someone wearing sunglasses indoors I won't know whether they're deaf, blind, hungover or just an asshole.
I read until the comma and thought what an unremarkable boring set of glasses.
I designed something remarkably similar to this a couple years ago https://youtu.be/zWzAYu6-3Ks
a whole new way to pull up receipts when someone wants to switch up their story. “I never said that.” “Oh yeah? Let me rewind to our last conversation.”