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Or shall we say will be a very distant second option with Smart glasses now offering live speech transcription to text display. CES now presents several solid options to offer those who are deaf or hearing impaired “real-time transcription”. Plus it gets better since you can get live translation during phone calls and can generate text records of conversations.

Honestly if you are a CI candidate why not first try glasses for the hearing impaired first, for say $400 to $1000. Versus the long upward and costly battle going the CI route. And for you people that don’t research anything, I provide the following.

Holliday AI Glasses with standard optical lens, meaning you don’t need customs prescriptions. So glasses are suitable for both nearsighted and farsighted individuals.

Dreamsmart AI glasses for haring impaired. Glasses transcript spoken language with almost no delay. Furthermore 10 to 12 hours of battery power and they fully recharge in 40 minutes.

End of Month Samsung AR glasses coming out, which could take a serious bite out of Meta’s plans.

It’s 2025 guys “so stop looking back”. At old technology that doesn’t always work as planned. I rarely If ever hear or read someone saying they “love there CI”. But my assumption is - in a few months you’ll read a lot of users/wearers of Smart Glasses saying they love their live speech-to-text captioning.

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You any the smart glasses please just give it up. Most of the ones of us that wear hearing aids have poor eyesight and will not be available to see those small screens. I have tried several so called AR devices and it is just not possible to make heads or tells out of what is there.

Guess you didn’t buy any Facebook stock (now called Meta) years back Kemp. Do you realize Meta now has the best selling smart glasses in the world and I’m not talking for hearing loss?
Do you realize we’re now in year 2025 and not really interested yesterday’s old technology.

If you did any research yourself, other then throwing stones you realize Halliday glasses have completely clear lenses you can look through. Soon to be prescription. You don’t have to have good or bad eyesight period. Because the live captioning text the person is saying standing in front of you is being projected onto your eye, via a small scanner on the glass frame.

You look straight a head you see no text. You look slightly up (with eyes), you see live speech to text in real time.

So make heads or tails out of that.

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Oh now you are trying to take away my freedom of speech. So many that only want to push their will on others but not willing to hear anyone else point of view. I fully understand that this going to be the future whether I like it or not it doesn’t mean I have to like it or keep my mouth shut.

In reply to @SayAgain3

@SayAgain3 said:

You don’t have to have good or bad eyesight period. Because the live captioning text the person is saying standing in front of you is being projected onto your eye, via a small scanner on the glass frame.

People with poor eyesight or blindness can’t see what corrective lenses, no matter how well fitted, project onto their eyes. So how would they be able to see the text that smart glasses project onto their eyes?

That is my point too. People with what we with poor eyesight calls great vision have no clue to what we go through. And as someone that does use text to speech and speech to text ,I know just how poor the accuracy of speech to text translation is.

Interesting. We used speech to text on an iPad to communicate with a deaf friend, and found the cycle of:
I say something, the iPad translates to text, the deaf friend reads text, the deaf friend thinks and then says a reply
to be quite slow in reality and not suitable for normal-speed conversation.
Can someone who has , or has conversation with people who have CI, please give feedback as to the speed of conversation?

I have several friends with and the conversation flow is very seamless. I have no difference that me as someone with hearing aids and severe hearing loss communicating with someone without any hearing loss.

In reply to @paul.cleary.nz

Interesting.
I think these glasses are going to be very useful.
With people who are deaf and practically deaf get to hear the voice of a child are grandchild they may never have heard.
They hear other sounds they may never have heard and may haven’t heard in years.
I remember a news station locally had a story on a man who cried when he heard his child’s voice for the first time because of a CI.
I’m not looking for an argument.
The glasses have their use, but I doubt they will replace CI.

In reply to @cvkemp

Sometimes life isn fair’. If you have AMD along with serious hearing loss that’s rough. But then there are a lot of people getting up in age who have “this or that”.

Most people that wear glasses have average to very good vision with glasses. With various prescription levels. Those are the people who will be buying and using smart glasses in the future. Meta and Apple are now in a race (along with others) to replace your cell phone with smart phones. Not going to happen for another 3 to 5 years but it’s going to happen. So deal with it when it happens verses saying my eyes are bad or I can’t put batteries in aid due to arthritis, or this or that. Last I checked there is no cure for old age.

Yet millions have improved their life quality over the years with medical advancements across the board. Not only will the hearing impaired/deaf benefit from using AR/Smart glasses, those with serious vision problems will also benefit. Since AR/Smart glasses are being developed for the blind or close to blind. Gee - hope you don’t complain about that???

So if 90% of current users throughout the world can see well enough to use AR/Smart glasses for what ever, compared to those 10% who can’t due to vision problems - well I’m sorry. Such is life. But who knows maybe in five plus year the remaining 10% who can’t see there hand in front of there face might just experience some medical breakthrough to assist them.

My point is stop complaining about what the future is bringing, unless you want to live in a cave and keep warm building fires.

You are acting like a teenager that wants his/her way and you don’t care who you disrespect. I know what the future is going to bring. I was part of the ones that built some of the first personal computers and first cell phones too. You are a new comer that will either make things better or worse for mankind. I have seen the good and the bad of computers and it scares me to think about what computer robots, drones, and can do to bring about the destruction of this world if it isn’t controlled now. Computers are a great help when done correctly but it can be the total destruction of the world if not controlled. And to be honest it is on the way to being set free and going out of control.

In reply to @paul.cleary.nz

Speech to text on iPad is slow. Speech to text on Smart phone is fast. No comparison.

Speech to text on iPad, cell phone is also distracting because you can’t look the person in the eye you’re talking to.

You on the wrong page if you trying to compare someones respond time using a speech to text iPad/cell phone versus someone with a . That’s like comparing a bicycle to a car.

Better to compare live speech to text via smart glasses to CI. But how about this.

To judge the speed of word comprehension/reading text all I have to do is put smart glasses on my nose. If CI I have to be approved by doctor, have insurance or be extremely wealthy, go through unfortunate skull surgery, then tested for next six months to get final results. Don’t know about but I take the glass test before I ever touch a CI.

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You are just a disrespectful youngster that didn’t get the discipline you needed as a child.

Both have there place. But if I have a choice of only being able to read text or hearing a conversation abd my audiologist and the surgery says I have the possibility to hear again then i will definitely choice to get the CI.

I think so too. He doesn’t understand what it’s like not to hear, he’s not just talking about listening to speech but also about music that is a pleasure for the soul. People don’t want to spend the whole day reading text through glasses, that would be very exhausting for the brain. When I listen to reviews or podcasts, I often have the habit of lying down, closing my eyes and listening.

This is your THIRD post on this same subject, two of them in two days. Ease up buddy.

Technology is going to change the world. It has already, and I can’t imagine what it will continue to do. I’m all for it, and like to think I already live on that bleeding edge.

But your insistence that “this will end the need for hearing aids”, and “no more ” is wrong and hard-headed. They are NOT ready to replace and CI. Each year they get better, and I’m excited for what they may do some day. But not yet.

Perhaps if you shared these new products as “look what’s coming, and what they can do” rather than “here is the answer to all your problems”, you would get a better reception from us.

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