Bidirectional ASL translation glasses. A deaf person signs — the hearing person hears. The hearing person speaks — the deaf person reads. No interpreter needed.
90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents. 88% of those parents never learn sign language. Missing the critical window for language acquisition leads to permanent neurological changes.
Median reading level at deaf high school graduation: 4th grade. This has not improved in over a century. Only 7-10% read at 7th grade level or above.
~2,038 certified ASL interpreters serve the entire US. That's a 50:1 ratio. The impromptu meeting, the hallway conversation, the emergency — the deaf person misses all of it.
Every existing solution is one-directional. Caption glasses show text to deaf users. ASL recognition translates signs. But nobody has built both directions into one wearable system.
Every night, the family talks, laughs, shares stories — and the deaf child sits there understanding nothing. This happens at every meal. Every gathering. Every holiday. For years. The dinner table is supposed to be where a family connects. For a deaf child in a hearing family, it's where they learn they are invisible.
The hearing person's glasses face the deaf person directly — perfect front view of both hands, face, and body. Better than any self-mounted camera.
Hearing person receives audio (natural for them). Deaf person receives visual text (natural for them). Nobody wears something that fights their communication mode.
Speech-to-text on glasses already ships ($95-$880). We only have to solve one hard problem — ASL recognition. Not two impossible things.
Both people wear similar glasses. They maintain eye contact. No phone screen between them. No kiosk. Just two people having a conversation.
Join us in building technology that bridges the communication gap for 466 million people.
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