In the last few years so-called smart glasses have become increasingly popular. Smart glasses are high-tech eyeglasses that have cameras, microphones and computing power. Some of them are being marketed to people with hearing loss. Those models caption human speech and display the captions on the lenses.
WBGO’s Jon Kalish is married to a woman with profound hearing loss and his wife Pamela took a pair of captioning glasses out for a road test…
NOTE: Jon Kalish's feature is part of WBGO's "Voices of Wellness" series made possible in part by a grant from the Horizon Foundation.
