United Kingdom, Aug. 13 -- Scientists are working on "superpower" glasses to help those with poor hearing.

Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh are hoping to fix a long-standing problem for people who struggle to hear what others are saying in crowded and noisy places.

The experts are developing spectacles with built-in cameras that use artificial intelligence (AI) to translate lip movements into speech, which is then transmitted to a hearing aid or headphones.

The glasses use a smartphone app to 5G to send audio and visual data to a powerful cloud server.

AI isolates the speaker's voice from the surrounding noise and sends the cleared-up audio to the listener almost instantaneously.

Professor Mathini Sellathurai, the l...