Babel Fisk Glasses Concept: Read what you hear in real time

For the hearing impaired, reading in block text and viewing television subtitles has become the norm nowadays, and advances in technology have enabled people whom have hearing difficulties to access medium like anybody else is able too.

However, these awesomely cool Babel Fisk Glassess, which allow the hearing impaired to read what they hear in real time, seem to be an advancement which really could become a fantastic reality.

Designed by Mads Hindhede, the Babel Fisk Glasses havemicrophones built into the frame in order to pick up the voice of a person in the line of sight, and then an embedded speech-to-text program will create the text that is projected inside of the lenses. Whats more, you can even program it to record the text to a flash memory card for later use. So you can literally record everything that you hear as a text file.

In all honestly this is a concept design with one immediate flaw: What if somebody is in the room having a conversation whilst you are watching a video on Youtube? I mean, surely you’ll be blinded with one heck of a lot of words (a little bit like our tag cloud!).