Entrepreneurs Aarush Yadav and Arnav Kumar have raised $1.3 million in pre-seed funding for their startup, The Subvocal Company, to develop eyeglasses that enable users to communicate with computers without speaking aloud. Backed by Y Combinator, the San Francisco-based wearable technology company uses radio-frequency sensing to detect micro-facial movements made during silent speech and translate them into text in real time.
He shared a link to the pre-order page, which shows the wearable tech is priced at $699 and available for $499 for the “early birds”.
One can message, take not, or have a conversation with an AI agent using the glasses but without making a sound. “No. Subvocal does not use or require cameras for silent speech input. There’s no video or camera-based lip reading, and you don’t need to turn on your computer’s webcam,” reads the statement on the company website.
The wearable technology lets users “Write at the speed of speech, without speaking out loud, according to the company website.
