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These Transcribing Eyeglasses Put Subtitles on the World

Boone Ashworth

created: July 2, 2025, 11 a.m. | updated: July 5, 2025, 10:44 a.m.

TranscribeGlass are smart eyeglasses that aim to do exactly what it says on the tin: transcribe spoken conversations and project subtitles onto the glass in front of your eyes. In the app, subtitles can be moved around in the wearer’s vision, anywhere within a 30-degree field of view. Subtitles are currently available in the glasses, but Madhav Lavakare, the 24-year-old founder of TranscribeGlass, has other features lined up. It does a pretty good job of transcribing the conversation, though it does split the word “Glasshole” into “Glass Hole,” which is honestly funnier. Though Lavakare’s smart glasses are much more normal-glasses-adjacent than Google Glass ever was, they still can’t really help but look like smart glasses.

1 month ago: WIRED