[jeffnappi]

This is great! Hearing aids are stupidly expensive and I hope we see more solutions leveraging mass production to improve accessibility of hearing aid tech

Another thing I'd love to see is affordable AR glasses with auto captioning for noisy environments with many speakers. My mother struggles with hearing loss, and it's apparent to me that audio-only solutions are not sufficient for many situations and types of hearing loss.

There's a small company already working on auto-captioning, but the price point is currently $5k - https://www.xanderglasses.com/xanderglasses

[ikekkdcjkfke]

Can Whisper differentiate / classify speakers? If so the easier thing would be a pad listening to the room

[jeffnappi]

The problem is that folks who are hard of hearing want to be part of the conversation and make eye contact. The transcripts in the audio recorder app on Pixel phones is quite good, though combining computer vision and audio processing is necessary for loud and complex social environments.