Subvocal’s glasses turn your silent speech into text at 200 wpm — it measures mouth movements with radar? Like many things these days, this is very technically interesting but also creepy and dystopian.
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Apple bought a company working on a similar technology of silent voice dictation recently https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/29/apple-second-biggest-acquisition-ever/
Most importantly, they captured the Edna vibe perfectly.
I know this technology shows up a lot in science fiction, but I think the first place I remember reading it depicted was in Earth by David Brin in the early 90s. In some ways its pretty cool to see the science fiction of my youth become reality. In other ways it's not, ofc!
Hardly a week passes where I don’t have a moment that feels like I’m in a dystopian future. Also dictation seems to be so error prone that its hard to believe this will be more accurate than spoken word – but that might just be my kiwi accent, maybe dictation is better for the North American folk?
literally tech from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by @doctorow.pluralistic.net
The glasses in the video and photos are prototypes...this is one of the images they're showing on the product page ("The images show our current design direction; final specifications are still being developed.")
It'll no work in Scotland.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MNuFcIRlwdc&ra=m
hahahahahahaha
In all seriousness, isn’t this…what typing is for? This feels like a solution in search of a problem.
And honestly, for those of us who use our computers for work a lot, my typing is "fast enough" for almost all situations. I am not a pro on the keyboard, but I am pretty fast.
Plus the keyboard allows me to do the formatting. A lot of my documents (for students) are very formatting heavy. Lots of unique spacing, images, and Lückentexte. Good luck doing that with voice commands.
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