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Taking captioning glasses on a test run

People with hearing loss now have more options to navigate the world around them. Captioning glasses, equipped with microphones, caption human speech and display it on the lenses.

Jon Kalish‘s wife has significant hearing loss. He reports on her experience with the smart glasses.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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