TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month “meta premium” subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses.
If you don’t subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month
The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.



As someone with auditory processing disorder, the only thing i want is real-time closed captions of whoever is talking to me.
This, this is a really good answer. Thanks for bringing it up.
I have raging tinnitus, If a model could properly filter out background noise and give me CC I would be super stoked.