https://youtu.be/Pe2ugye7Ya4?si=qhGPselIm7sZkXyP&t=558 (

My father has hearing aids and in some environments, it doesn't work well (directional vs omnidirectional ... but directional requires the person to directly address him while omnidirectional tends to pick up too much background clutter). In doctors offices (for example) he has handed his phone in dictation mode to the receptionist and asked them to speak to it and then he reads the transcription and responds... and this repeats. In a restaurant environment, sometimes another person orders for him.

This sort of thing could be useful in such cases.

As someone whose hearing has been degrading fast, this sounds like a feature that would be immensely useful. At some point you get tired of asking everyone to repeat themselves and start guessing by context (you've probably seen an old family member do this).

And even if it weren't super weird and creepy, it's 15 seconds, right? So what, that waitress rolledup, read the menu for less than 10 seconds, and then zoomed away, giving you a couple of seconds to get to and run the replay?

That's how you know no one in charge has a real life, they're all so disconnected from the reality of the bottom 90% that they think this is how we live.

Same with the "airpod live translation" thing, they probably spent more time implementing/testing it than the feature has been used in real life

It feels like a made for TV ad for accessibility.

What is a normal person?

It's so funny how the HN crowd is so quick to shout down people who are ableist sometimes, and so quick to BE ableist sometimes.

I kept thinking they were revealing glasses the way they gave a feature list before describing the item in question.

oh man, you have not been keeping up with the anti-social joneses.

Interactiving with people is so pre-covid!