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Hearables

37 products · augments hearing · 35 with sourced capabilities

Hearables are the most mature category in this directory, because the hardware already existed: an earbud with a microphone, a battery and a radio. What changed is what runs on it — real-time translation, selective amplification, and an assistant that hears the same room you do. The line between a hearing aid, a translation earbud and a pair of wireless earbuds is now a software line, which is why the category is sorted by what the device does to sound rather than by what it is called.

Products
37
Makers
6
Published price
$40–$2,900
With an image
29
Makers Audien 13 Timekettle 11 ELEHEAR 6 Shokz 3 IDUN Technologies 2 Zepp Clarity 2

What is counted here

In-ear or over-ear devices with on-board processing that filter, amplify, translate or annotate the sound around the wearer.

What is not

Plain Bluetooth earbuds and headphones with no processing beyond equalisation, and clinical hearing aids that are only sold through an audiologist and publish no product page.

A product belongs to exactly one category. Where a device could sit in two, we file it by what it does most of the time — and say so on its page.

How to choose between them

  1. 1

    Latency is the number that decides whether translation is usable. Anything above roughly a second makes a conversation feel like a radio call.

  2. 2

    Ask what happens without a network. Offline language packs are the difference between a travel tool and a demo.

  3. 3

    Amplification and noise cancelling are opposites. A device that does both well is rare and usually expensive.

Apps that work with hearables

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Head-to-head in this category

Questions this category raises

Is a translation earbud the same as a hearing aid?
No, and the difference is regulatory rather than technical: a hearing aid is a medical device with an audiological fitting, a translation earbud is a consumer product. Some products in this list sit close to the line; the product page shows which claim the maker makes.
Do these work with any phone?
Usually iOS and Android, sometimes only one. Where the maker publishes it, the apps section names the platform.

Other things a human can augment

Sorted by what the device augments, not by what it costs. Every product card links to the maker's page; every claim on a product page links to the sentence it came from. Catalogue state: 37 published products in Hearables, last read 31 Oct 2026.