Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise

Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making ... by howunfortunate on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:39PM (#50341464)

This is:

1. Insanely cool

2. Gives me serious "whispering earring" vibes. Imagine having a full on conversation with an AI via subvocalization and listening with ear bud to guide you throughout the day. https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yva...

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Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making ... by aarushyadav on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:07PM (#50341953)

The glasses will have open ear speakers similar to meta glasses! We plan to make our own agent harness and connect it native with the glasses. I have meta glasses but rarely use the AI since it's weird to talk out loud to ask it things when I'm out. This is how we want to solve it

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Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making ... by genxy on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:51PM (#50343537)

> own agent harness

I would not use this, I only want to use the glasses as an IO device. You must provide the ability to use the glasses as a regular BT headset.

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Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making ... by shostack on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:37PM (#50347742)

Please don't. I want a dumb device I can use as I/o for my own harness and setup. I do not want to be locked into some company's harness and associated risks.

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Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making ... by joshjob42 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:15AM (#50348371)

I would strongly prefer if the function of the glasses was as an IO device I can hook up to whatever agent I want be it Claude/Claude Duet app on my phone, something running on a server I have somewhere, whatever.

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Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making ... by coldspoon95 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:55AM (#50352008)

Please keep it as a simple IO device. Keyboard in(including “enter”), Bluetooth speaker out.

That way we can use it with whatever agents we each use.

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Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making ... by skinfaxi on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:36PM (#50343343)

Might not even need buds. I have watched movies on XReal glasses with the sound fairly loud to me next to other people and they didn't notice a thing (I asked them to be sure).

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Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making ... by zoeysmithe on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:32PM (#50344952)

I feel like this reflects the movie Her (2013). This solves the input problem better than speaking out in public, especially on a crowded train.

I do think seeing an email on a smartglasses lens is better than hearing it read to you. So I can see this as just an input device, but the outputs don't have to be sound back to you.

I'm guessing they are situating themselves to be bought or at least licensed out to the big smartglasses players.

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