YC and Afore Capital Invest $1.3M in Silent Input Glasses Subvocal
Subvocal has raised $1.3M from YC and Afore Capital. Its glasses use contactless sensing to track the internal speech muscles of the face, decoding silently mouthed words into text at over 200 words per minute without sound. Founder Aarush Yadav says the product requires no typing or speaking aloud, and pre-orders are now open.
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This information provides the funding amount, sensing principle, and the silent input metric of over 200 words per minute, which can be used to gauge the current progress of contactless input hardware.
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View original postWe’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again. Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard. It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min. Pre-orders are now live at: https://t.co/DzrwIpg3GR
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We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again. Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard. It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min. Pre-orders are now live at: https://t.co/DzrwIpg3GR
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Damn! YC has just bet on an extremely bizarre new piece of hardware, Subvocal,
You could say this is the inflection point where human-computer interaction says goodbye to keyboards and microphones for good,
It's not yet another smart recording glasses perched on the bridge of your nose, nor is it some sci-fi helmet glowing all over,
It's just an ordinary pair of glasses, doing something extremely pure: you don't need to type, and you don't need to speak aloud—it directly decodes the language you silently recite in your throat into text.
Before, using AI in the office or on the subway was always awkward as hell: typing was too slow to keep up with the speed of your thoughts, talking to thin air made you look like a lunatic, both a nuisance to others and completely devoid of privacy.
Subvocal just raised $1.3 million from YC and Afore Capital, and the mechanical principle founder Aarush Yadav demonstrated on the spot is shockingly simple:
The glasses use non-contact sensing to track the vocal muscles inside your face, capturing those tiny mouth shapes and electromyographic vibrations almost invisible to the naked eye, silently outputting more than 200 words per minute.
The most brutal part is that it welds together the concealment of input and the extreme speed of speech.
You sit in a meeting looking like you're spacing out, when in fact your throat muscles are already quietly making requests to AI and running code.
So the endgame of AI's evolution in the future may not be teaching machines to chat loudly with you, but rather thoroughly denoising human-computer interaction, flattening it down to a physiological instinct one step faster than silent recitation. https://t.co/azKaj6XQND