10-year-old Deaf Girl Is ‘Blown Away’ with New Caption Glasses That Let Her ‘See” Spoken Words | Good News Network
This is the moment a deaf girl tried on a pair of high-tech, $1,500 glasses, which allow her to “see” conversations in real time.
Kendyl Pool was born profoundly deaf due to malformations in her inner ears and has used American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate since she was six months old.
Her mother Bri first discovered these ‘caption glasses’ on TikTok and knew they could be life-changing for her daughter. The glasses transcribe speech into words in real time and display them on the lenses.
She gave the glasses to Kendyl as a surprise gift on her birthday.
“Kendyl had no idea these even existed so when she put them on and I started talking, she was completely shocked,” said Bri. “She was just blown away, she even cried a little bit because she couldn’t believe she could see what I was saying right in front of her.”
The caption glasses developed by HearView connect via Bluetooth to an app that uses voice recognition technology to transcribe spoken words onto a tiny screen embedded inside the lenses. Not only do they allow Kendyl to follow conversations more easily, but they also help her practice speaking by testing whether her own words appear correctly on the screen.
“She can’t hear herself speak so she uses the glasses to check if she’s pronouncing words right,” said Bri. “She’ll say ‘Mom, Mom, Mom’ and wait to see if it pops up. When it does, she gets so excited.”
