SmartXY B2B Smart Eyewear Platform

Hearing and Caption Glasses ODM for Accessibility Projects

Scope hearing-accessibility and caption-glasses projects with a defined audio-to-text workflow, confirmed display interfaces, customer software ownership and user-led pilot acceptance.

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Enterprise project fit

Best-fit buyers

  • Hearing Category Director
  • Optical Retail Buyer
  • Private Label Hearing Buyer
  • Clinical Innovation Lead

Why SmartXY

  • Open-ear audio frame engineering
  • Multiple microphone architecture
  • Hearing-accessibility and optical-retail requirements review
  • OEM/ODM model from requirement freeze to mass production

For established brands, channel partners and enterprise teams with a credible deployment or route-to-market plan. Begin with your contact details, company, platform and purpose: standard SDK access, a paid sample evaluation, standard-platform branding or custom development. A business owner can lead standard procurement; custom development also needs a technical owner and development budget. Evaluation, engineering, tooling and optional source licensing are quoted separately where applicable.

Review source-code access, engineering support and technology transfer · Discuss custom development

Define the audio-to-caption path

Caption display and assistive listening address different tasks. A proposed caption workflow captures consented audio, sends it to an agreed speech-recognition service on a phone or cloud, and returns text through the selected display interface. Confirm every link before treating the workflow as available.

  1. Capture with consentChoose the microphone source, conversation setting, user controls and recording policy. Access to a microphone stream requires interface confirmation.
  2. Transcribe in the agreed serviceThe customer identifies supported languages, phone/cloud processing, accounts, connectivity and data retention. No on-glasses recognition is assumed.
  3. Present readable textConfirm text update and layout controls, font/language support and reconnect behavior. A display does not establish arbitrary canvas or caption APIs.
  4. Test with intended usersAgree readability, correction behavior, end-to-end delay, noisy-environment performance and understandable failure feedback.

Separate the display evaluation from hearing-device development

AR99 display evaluation

AR99 is a mass-production display platform to assess for a text-led experience. Confirm the exact build, text interface, companion-App responsibility and Rx/fitting requirements. This page does not establish a ready-made caption application.

C100 Android prototype evaluation

C100 is an EVT3 camera-and-display project with CNC functional prototypes. Assess its Android application path, direct Wi-Fi or BLE phone relay, and off-device model processing. Prototype evaluation and future production qualification are separate decisions.

Assistive-listening / hearing ODM

Open-ear audio, microphone architecture, comfort and acoustic tuning are project requirements to review. The historical EG01 hearing-accessibility ODM project does not establish a standard current hearing aid, clinical outcome or OTC authorization. Confirm intended use, market classification and the responsible review owner for a new project.

Assign software and user-experience responsibilities

The customer owns or commissions speech recognition, captions, translation if requested, accounts, privacy notices and user support. SmartXY confirms the agreed platform interface and separately scoped firmware or App work. A standard SDK, source license and customized application are distinct deliverables.

Request evidence for audio access, text/display control, pairing, reconnect and supported phone/OS versions. Define what happens when speech recognition is uncertain or the network is lost. Validate the intended use and any hearing or medical claims before retail or deployment decisions.

A user-led pilot with agreed acceptance criteria

Fill the target languages, acoustic conditions, wearer group, test consent, caption delay, transcription evaluation method, display readability and support needs. Include fit, battery behavior and an accessible fallback when the service fails. The customer sets intended-use acceptance with its users; supplier owners provide evidence for the agreed hardware/software scope. No accessibility or hearing outcome is presumed.

For a directed RFQ, send the caption or listening task, selected platform, processing location, interface needs, software owner and pilot criteria. Add engineering ownership and development budget for modifications. Request C100 standard Android SDK for software evaluation, or review project cost categories.

RFQ checklist

Share the caption or listening workflow, target languages, acoustic setting and intended market. State any hearing-related claims you intend to make so their evidence and review responsibility can be scoped; include a retail price band only where relevant.

For faster feasibility review, include target market, ID direction, optical or audio route, certification region, app/SDK needs, estimated volume and launch timing.