TranscribeGlass is an affordable and comfortable wearable assistive technology device for d/Deaf, Hard of Hearing (HoH), elderly, and other people who want to improve their comprehension of spoken communication using captions. It projects closed captions from a variety of sources on to a heads-up display in the user’s field of vision in near-real-time, thereby greatly enhancing their ability to understand what is being said.

The TranscribeGlass mobile companion app running on a mobile device connects to the selected caption source and sends the captions to the TranscribeGlass heads-up display via Bluetooth Low Energy. The captions are overlaid on to the user’s vision of the surrounding real-world environment in real-time.