Scientists have developed a pair of glasses powered by artificial intelligence that give wearers superhuman hearing.

Equipped with a camera to translate lip movements into speech, the smart spectacles deliver cleaned up audio for people with hearing difficulties – or anyone in a noisy environment.

The glasses – built by a team from Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, Napier and Sterling – were trained on noise samples including washing machines and traffic.

The researchers hope the new smart glasses can help the more than 1.2 million adults in the UK who have hearing loss severe enough to make conversation difficult, according to data from the Royal National Institute for Deaf People.

“We’re not trying to reinvent hearing aids. We’re trying to give them superpowers,” said Mathini Sellathurai f

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