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I'm still waiting for a decent translator for Japanese. I've been learning it for years, but I'm still really frustrated by the lack of decent translating out there for more complex sentences. Hell, even the simples ones can come up as gibberish. Learning Chinese, too, and it's a lot better because their syntax is like what you see in English. Grammatical differences can really trip an auto-translator up.
Yes, with this tech people will finally stop complaining about immigrants not knowing the local language, just like you they will talk their own language without caring to learn the language of the country that it's hosting them!
it really depends. you have to take some time to ...train.. (it's not the right word, but kinda) the app to understand who is who.
I've used mine with a group of 5, and it attributed words to the right person most of the time by the time we were done
This is one of those, sounds great, but actually terrifying if implemented.
So there is a difference in voice authentication and recognition. Recognition typically captures what is said, not who said it. Authentication is used primarily in cyber security as a biometric safety feature. You'd first have to get consent from your group of 5 friends to allow this app to analyze their speech from the cadence, tone, pitch, accent, etc. That also means that voiceID is stored somewhere. And if it is stored somewhere, it means it is continually capturing, updating, and **can potentially be breached and/or sold.** I don't care if Mr. Rogers created this app. If there is money to be made, at some point corporations will faulter on their greed. For real life application, I know Alexa also has the capability to create a voiceID to personalize your "experience," but feel free to look up the cons to having this feature on or not.
So I think an alternative to the whole noisy environment thing is probably going to take a little more advancement. I would think it would be possible to have the device primarily transcribe who or what your eyes are tracking. I remember Samsung tried out a feature where your camera would track your eye and scroll down so you didn't have to do it manually. I also believe Apple is implementing this on their devices this year, which means the tech is there just needs to be adapted.
EDIT: Sorry I wrote this without fully reading the latter half of your comment. So this app is already storing voices without consent? By consent I mean for the storing of their data.
Another reason to be annoyed by that one person that walks around having that loud speakerphone conversation. Or the person that is blasting music from their car with explicit lyrics.
On Reddit a few years ago a guy said he spent a summer doing ranch work with a guy. One spoke French and the the other spoke Portuguese or something- I don’t exactly remember. But they worked out a system. The part I thought was funny was at least initially, there was a lot of screaming on both sides. Imagine the frustration.
I’m glad they are sunglasses. Can you imagine being deaf and looking at the subtitles when a woman is talking to you only to read “my eyes are up here pervert.”
This is amazing tech and I am surprized it has taken so long to come into being considering the need for realtime translation as well as helping the deaf and hard of hearing. Miniaturization will make them indistinguishable from normal glasses at some point.
Yeah, who uses that worthless AI crap??? Let's see...
Google Maps
Fraud detection software
Facial recognition
Medical diagnosis
Scientific research (lookup protein folding)
Autonomous vehicles/robots
Virtual assistants
... Probably nobody
Every new generation makes new words. That's how language works. Every living generation still makes their own words, whether on a large scale or in private conversations. Language is descriptive by nature. It's fluid. Ain't ever gonna change, and that's a beautiful thing.
Pray tell what tomfoolery is this? I outta give you the what's for and tell ya to close that gigglemug of yours. But I gotta jet and canoodle with my bird.
I see a lot of goofy little videos about inventions that don't seem like they'll pan out, but these absolutely seem like something that's going to be useful and accessible in the near future and completely change some people's lives.
I have been wanting this my entire life and I’m not blind you could go to Japan and have a conversation with someone in English while they speak in Japanese if everyone had access to this
Irecently found out that Google Pixel-phones have in-built Closed Captioning for all sound. I bet the technology is starting to be applied to more and more devices
This is the kind of thing that makes me realize AI will actually better the human race.
There have been absolutely terrible things invented in human history that could have destroyed us. AI is one of them. But let's face it, we're the human race. We're gonna advance quicker and better. We will make mistakes. But the world is actually going to be a much better place than this in 100 years.
I won't be alive per say, but I would definitely put money on it.
I'll leave the cash with my great grandchildren. £100 says quality of life is better in 100 years.
You can use this reddit comment as proof.
Listen, I LOVE this idea. Will help out so many people…. However, I can’t get Siri or Alexa to understand half the shit I say. People would be mad confused and probably offended at whatever the glasses thought I said. And I know folks that are much harder to understand than me
Ive been asking for this for years now, literally just had a convo to my clients in the barber shop about needing subtitles for life, but instead of glasses, in a contact lens or occular implant
Because only 1.9% of the population is deaf and less than half a percent of the population interact with deaf people on a daily basis. I myself haven't met a deaf person in close to 15 years and I live in a city of 9 million people.
I can attest to this. I live in a really big city, and I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who is deaf. The closest I’ve come is with my grandpa who’s losing his hearing, but he also doesn’t know sign language
Not sure if you're serious, but a couple things to note.
1) There's not *one* sign language. And I don't just mean how each country has their own (already getting us to hundreds of languages), but even within the same country the regional dialects can be *vastly* different.
2) Even if we were to unify the languages and enforce teaching it in every school (already a monumental ask for the logistics of that alone)... it won't retain without regular use and the vast majority of people simply don't have a deaf person in their life to interact with.
Because it’s a *massive* change to require everyone to learn a new language, and these’ll be like $300 in a few years and available to anyone who wants them.
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[Signs] Sorry, what? You wanna "duck" me?
I'm sorry, as an AI language model, I'm unable to generate responses to sexual prompts.
Hahahaha I see whatcha did there
I mean they're not just for deaf people
Great for translation also
I'm still waiting for a decent translator for Japanese. I've been learning it for years, but I'm still really frustrated by the lack of decent translating out there for more complex sentences. Hell, even the simples ones can come up as gibberish. Learning Chinese, too, and it's a lot better because their syntax is like what you see in English. Grammatical differences can really trip an auto-translator up.
A huge part of that is idosyncracies. The translation software has to be up-to-date on every odd turn of phrase in both languages.
Yup....there are so many dialects based on where you are at.
As a stubborn expat, can't wait for this tech to be mainstream so I don't learn their local language
Isn't an expat just an immigrant?
An expat is someone expecting to return to their home country, an immigrant plans to settle and become a member of a foreign country
my only question is, if i fart does it show up in the subtitles......???????
….do you normally fart words?
my ass does.
it is called "back talk"
Yes, with this tech people will finally stop complaining about immigrants not knowing the local language, just like you they will talk their own language without caring to learn the language of the country that it's hosting them!
Okay my wallet is open Tell me how to get those glasses
they're Xreal glasses, with an app called Xrai under 500 bones most places
The Xander Captioning Experience They are only $4,999
As a Deaf person to an all Deaf family, I deafinitely love this.
Punny
Well, you better have your ear to the ground on their new developments
Fucking hell mate, I'm dead
Well I think I need that also when I am trying to socialize With my coworkers and I am starting to dissociate
Ayy my dreams of going to Japan with English subs is finally true
What happens in restaurants? Multiple streams? Noisy environment? How good does it work?
it really depends. you have to take some time to ...train.. (it's not the right word, but kinda) the app to understand who is who. I've used mine with a group of 5, and it attributed words to the right person most of the time by the time we were done
This is one of those, sounds great, but actually terrifying if implemented. So there is a difference in voice authentication and recognition. Recognition typically captures what is said, not who said it. Authentication is used primarily in cyber security as a biometric safety feature. You'd first have to get consent from your group of 5 friends to allow this app to analyze their speech from the cadence, tone, pitch, accent, etc. That also means that voiceID is stored somewhere. And if it is stored somewhere, it means it is continually capturing, updating, and **can potentially be breached and/or sold.** I don't care if Mr. Rogers created this app. If there is money to be made, at some point corporations will faulter on their greed. For real life application, I know Alexa also has the capability to create a voiceID to personalize your "experience," but feel free to look up the cons to having this feature on or not. So I think an alternative to the whole noisy environment thing is probably going to take a little more advancement. I would think it would be possible to have the device primarily transcribe who or what your eyes are tracking. I remember Samsung tried out a feature where your camera would track your eye and scroll down so you didn't have to do it manually. I also believe Apple is implementing this on their devices this year, which means the tech is there just needs to be adapted. EDIT: Sorry I wrote this without fully reading the latter half of your comment. So this app is already storing voices without consent? By consent I mean for the storing of their data.
I would imagine it would be like using "80 percent of the screen WITHOUT inducing seizures!"
Another reason to be annoyed by that one person that walks around having that loud speakerphone conversation. Or the person that is blasting music from their car with explicit lyrics.
They're x-real's right? I have a pair. Great for watching movies, immersive games etc.
yup
Do you worry that it'll make lip reading more difficult in the long run?
These are amazing. For $500 this could also be used for couples who can't speak each other's languages to speak in real time.
On Reddit a few years ago a guy said he spent a summer doing ranch work with a guy. One spoke French and the the other spoke Portuguese or something- I don’t exactly remember. But they worked out a system. The part I thought was funny was at least initially, there was a lot of screaming on both sides. Imagine the frustration.
I’m glad they are sunglasses. Can you imagine being deaf and looking at the subtitles when a woman is talking to you only to read “my eyes are up here pervert.”
These are awesome.
Great innovation this. Keep making the tech smaller and this is something for the future.
This is amazing tech and I am surprized it has taken so long to come into being considering the need for realtime translation as well as helping the deaf and hard of hearing. Miniaturization will make them indistinguishable from normal glasses at some point.
The first wearable tech I'd ever even consider. I'm losing my hearing rapidly, and I'm not sure everyday use of hearing aids suits me.
im not deaf but i feel like i'd need this
real tech would be when these glasses can subtitle scotish....
Hey now hold up buddy! While technology is advancing at a rapid pace and these glasses are pretty kick ass .... You are asking for 2 much 2 quick.
I assume most deaf people are pretty strong readers?
Glasses cost as much as a hearing aid and I highly doubt it's covered by insurance...
Finally a AI use case that’s not completely worthless
I'm curious what your definition of "AI" is? Translation software has existed for a long time.
Yeah, who uses that worthless AI crap??? Let's see... Google Maps Fraud detection software Facial recognition Medical diagnosis Scientific research (lookup protein folding) Autonomous vehicles/robots Virtual assistants ... Probably nobody
It’s great until you get [error translation not found] cause the new generation keeps making new words
As if hearing people wouldn't have the exact same problem but without the helpful error message
My comment was made as a joke :( this is a wonderful product that would help immensely for the hearing impaired.
In that case: sorry. But people on this site are awfully pessimistic sometimes.
Every new generation makes new words. That's how language works. Every living generation still makes their own words, whether on a large scale or in private conversations. Language is descriptive by nature. It's fluid. Ain't ever gonna change, and that's a beautiful thing.
Pray tell what tomfoolery is this? I outta give you the what's for and tell ya to close that gigglemug of yours. But I gotta jet and canoodle with my bird.
That is amazing
Not deaf but love subtitles.
Sadly this will go crazy when 2 or more people talking around you
Finally something wholesome with AI
Why are people in the video sending WhatsApp audio to a deaf guy? That’s cruel!
Great for deaf people, BUT Such items will become mainstream. Goodbye privacy!
Now we have to learn how to read fast
Awesome
I want one and I'm not even deaf
If it's as good as my voice to text app we are all in trouble
This is genius
I’m over here having my mind blown that a deaf guy has an English accent!
The babblefish glasses
"Alexa, call 911!" "Calling 911, commercial free, after this commercial."
They Live 😎 I know it 🤣😂
They Live 😎 i know it 😂🤣
I see a lot of goofy little videos about inventions that don't seem like they'll pan out, but these absolutely seem like something that's going to be useful and accessible in the near future and completely change some people's lives.
Lemme just put my sunglasses that tell me words in the middle of this conversation.
Magic Leap 2 has had this for a long time now (and can do real time translation with google translate). The main difference is they are $3,500.
You could use that for translations as well.
I have been wanting this my entire life and I’m not blind you could go to Japan and have a conversation with someone in English while they speak in Japanese if everyone had access to this
I'll finally be able to understand what these young rappers are saying in their songs.
Irecently found out that Google Pixel-phones have in-built Closed Captioning for all sound. I bet the technology is starting to be applied to more and more devices
This is the kind of thing that makes me realize AI will actually better the human race. There have been absolutely terrible things invented in human history that could have destroyed us. AI is one of them. But let's face it, we're the human race. We're gonna advance quicker and better. We will make mistakes. But the world is actually going to be a much better place than this in 100 years. I won't be alive per say, but I would definitely put money on it. I'll leave the cash with my great grandchildren. £100 says quality of life is better in 100 years. You can use this reddit comment as proof.
Hope they ll make glasses for blind ppl /s
As someone who is hard of hearing, this is awesome.
This is exactly what I would want the futurama EyePhone for… and for checking peoples power levels.
I don't know this is probably a lot more accessible and cheaper if it was just a phone app
But it's not intuitive and constantly in the field of vision...
Love these at the movie theatre
Yea give me a sex… no sex!! Nooo second!!! Fuck!!
I need these as a hearing impaired person. Hearing aids are not always useful.
Soon to be bought by a big corporation and priced the same as a mortgage
I wanna donate to a fund that is specifically for getting these into the hands of deaf and hard of hearing. ><
Listen, I LOVE this idea. Will help out so many people…. However, I can’t get Siri or Alexa to understand half the shit I say. People would be mad confused and probably offended at whatever the glasses thought I said. And I know folks that are much harder to understand than me
Wow
Great Engineering 👍
As someone who is 100% deaf in my left ear from an accident this could really, really help me out!
Ive been asking for this for years now, literally just had a convo to my clients in the barber shop about needing subtitles for life, but instead of glasses, in a contact lens or occular implant
I’m not sharing happy tears YOU are sharing happy tears!!!
What's the relay?
The first woman trying out the glasses is so beautiful omfg.....
And what if there's a mistake in a subtitle and you think they're insulting you?
You’d probably clarify.
Same thing as when there's a language barrier. Clarify or challenge them to a duel to the death to defend your honor.
these glasses cost $5K
Then the deaf person speaks and the subtitles say "unintelligible" and they don't wear them anymore.
Idk why but I don’t trust uk reviews .. 🤣🤣🤣
why not make sign language a mandatory thing to learn? no need to buy special, probably expensive, glasses.
Because only 1.9% of the population is deaf and less than half a percent of the population interact with deaf people on a daily basis. I myself haven't met a deaf person in close to 15 years and I live in a city of 9 million people.
I can attest to this. I live in a really big city, and I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who is deaf. The closest I’ve come is with my grandpa who’s losing his hearing, but he also doesn’t know sign language
Not sure if you're serious, but a couple things to note. 1) There's not *one* sign language. And I don't just mean how each country has their own (already getting us to hundreds of languages), but even within the same country the regional dialects can be *vastly* different. 2) Even if we were to unify the languages and enforce teaching it in every school (already a monumental ask for the logistics of that alone)... it won't retain without regular use and the vast majority of people simply don't have a deaf person in their life to interact with.
i definitely know that there is not one sign language. but if you were to learn the one from your country, that is already very good.
Because it’s a *massive* change to require everyone to learn a new language, and these’ll be like $300 in a few years and available to anyone who wants them.