The Subvocal Company has begun taking U.S. reservations for $499 glasses designed to convert silent mouthing into computer text, introducing a new input option while the product remains in development.
The offer is structured as a refundable $199 reservation payment followed by another $300. The listed price excludes taxes and shipping, and prescription lenses cost extra. The preorder page currently accepts paid orders only from U.S. customers.
In an Oct. 30 post, co-founder and CEO Aarush Yadav said the glasses use non-contact sensing to track internal speech muscles and translate deliberate silent mouthing into text. The company presents the system as an option for writing, messaging and interacting with artificial intelligence without speaking aloud. Its preorder page says a camera or computer webcam is not required.
The company’s profile on Y Combinator’s site says prototypes decode continuous subvocal speech at more than 200 words per minute and describes their accuracy as high. It says the company is working to turn its research into a portable device that can work across people after brief calibration. The profile gives no numerical accuracy rate.
The company has not disclosed its exact sensing architecture. Its Y Combinator profile says it is withholding those details for competitive and intellectual-property reasons. Yadav’s launch post framed the glasses as an alternative to typing or speaking to a computer.
The company estimates shipments could start in the first quarter of 2027, subject to approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It says the schedule is tentative and the glasses are still being developed; no delivery date has been set.
