AI powered glasses could eliminate talking at work but experts fear privacy concerns you never have to type or speak again

Noisy co-workers will be seen and not heard.Slow typing and distracting voice notes could be rendered obsolete thanks to cutting-edge, AI-powered glasses that translate your unspoken words into text instantaneously — without making a sound.Launched last week by San Francisco tech firm Subvocal, these state-of-the-art tech specs use sensors to detect the tiny facial movements people make while articulating words.“When you’re mouthing words, even if you’re really discreet with it, the muscles in your face and inside your mouth are moving right,” Aarush Yadav, who founded the company in February 2026 with Georgia Tech student Arnav Kumar, told the Post.“So what the glasses do is they emit radio waves similar to Bluetooth, similar frequency, but much lower power.”As the radio waves interact with the facial muscles, their signals change in ways that the AI can decode into speech — they literally read our body language.

Using these optical interlocuters, wearers can convert their mimed words into text at a rate of 200 words per minute, allowing people to compose everything from emails to voice notes at the speed of speech sans making a sound.They can even allow you to communicate with fellow wearers across the room silently as well, as seen in a somewhat “Black Mirror”-esque video demo with nearly 12 million views on X.“There are no limitations,” declared Yadav, who helped develop the prototype for Stanford’s Treehacks Hackathon in February.

He and Kumar have since raised $1.3 million in funding and took leaves of absence from school so they could pursue their startup full-time.What’s the point of these digital decoders? Yadav believes they could replace clunky and sluggish keyboard typing as well as cacophonous voice-to-text software, effectively improving both workplace productivity and ambience.“Voiceover typing is obvious,” said Yadav.

“It’s extremely fast and makes you so much more productive.But when out in public in the offic...