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What is Sound Alerts (Beta) on XanderGlasses II, and how do I turn it on?

See alerts for sounds like a door knock or siren in your glasses, alongside your captions.

Sound Alerts is a beta feature on XanderGlasses II, and we’d love for you to try it. Turn it on, see how it works for you, and tell us what you think at support@xander.tech.

What Sound Alerts does

When Sound Alerts is on, XanderGlasses II listen for important sounds other than speech, such as a door knock, a siren, or someone crying, and show an alert in your glasses alongside your captions. Alerts appear in brackets, like [Door knock] or [Coughing]. Like captioning, Sound Alerts works completely offline, and no audio is stored.

Turn on Sound Alerts

  1. On the Processing Device, tap the middle icon, “Settings,” on the bottom bar. You may need to scroll down.
  2. Switch on “Sound Alerts.”

Sounds it can recognize

In this beta, Sound Alerts can recognize these sounds: alarm, siren, doorbell, door knock, door, phone ringing, crying, car horn, cat, dog, clapping, coughing, sneezing, glass breaking, keyboard typing, train, water, airplane, shouting, thunder, engine, and bang. This list may change as we improve the feature.

Important

Because Sound Alerts is still in beta, it may miss a sound or label it incorrectly. Please don’t rely on it in place of smoke alarms or other safety devices.