Xander Smart Captioning Hearing Glasses for severe hearing loss
One of the latest innovations in hearing technology is Xander glasses, revolutionary smart glasses designed to support individuals with severe to profound hearing loss. And, they even have live captions.
In this exclusive CES 2025 interview, Matthew Allsop uncovered everything we need to know about this ground-breaking technology.
What are Xander smart glasses?
Xander smart glasses are designed to help specifically with hearing loss. So what we say is, if I can’t hear what you’re saying, our glasses can help you see what I’m saying. They project real-time captions of conversations right in your field of view.
It’s an emerging category, there are a lot of captioning glasses that are coming out. What makes this a little different is we are using all of this speech-to-text technology built into the glasses and we believe that helps a lot of our customers.
How Xander’s speech-to-text technology works
Being able to use it by just pushing a button, the captions come on, they just work. Because the speech-to-text is built in, you don’t need wifi, you don’t need cloud services, and you don’t need a phone.
It’s pretty accurate, how have you got to the point where it doesn’t pick up everything that’s going on around you and it just focuses on the person in front?
It really is about using the right technology in the right way. What’s nice is that, as there’s the Lombard effect as we are in an environment with noise, we just talk louder. And so we are relying on that effect a lot for people. but there are people who come by and they talk really quietly and then the glasses won’t pick up every word.
Just like you have to speak loud and clear for someone with hearing aids, you also have to do that for any pair of captioning glasses that are out there.
The glasses transcribe the wearer’s text in a bright neon colour which really stands out, and everything the other person in the conversation says appears right in front of you.
Who are Xander glasses designed for?
They are really designed for people that have more advanced stages of hearing loss – severe to profound hearing loss. If you’ve got mild to moderate hearing loss, hearing aids are amazing.
As your hearing loss progresses to severe or profound, you’re looking at more high-powered hearing aids. They can help, but they don’t always help because some people can hear sounds, but speech intelligibility is still a problem. That’s the market that Xander is ideal for.
When we have people try them on, they say, “Well, that word is wrong and that word is wrong.” And we say, “Well, congratulations, you don’t need our glasses. Your hearing is so good you don’t need them.” And we’re happy for that.
We’re really focused on people who need it the most.
Where are they available?
Xander smart glasses are currently available in the USA directly through Xander.
For all of the latest hearing technology available in the UK, get in touch with Harley Street Hearing.
Live Captions in Smart Glasses! Xander Glasses for Severe Hearing Loss | CES 2025 Video
Matthew Allsop is a Partner at Harley Street Hearing, and a content creator for Hearing Tracker, where he shares his honest opinion on all new hearing aid technology. Hearing Tracker is the world’s first truly independent resource for hearing aid customers. You can view his exclusive CES 2025 interview on Xander Glasses below.
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