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Cinema offers subtitle glasses to deaf film fans

The Kavanagh in Herne Bay has two pairs of Watchword glasses, which beam subtitles into the lenses.

The Kavanagh in Herne Bay has two pairs of Watchword glasses, which contain mini projectors in each arm that beam a film's subtitles into the lenses. The glasses cost more than £1,000 each and can have the text broadcast to the user at either of the Kavanagh's screens, thanks to a Watchword controller box that reads the film soundtrack in the projector room. One regular subtitle glasses user is Janet Blake from Herne Bay, who said she finds them much better than a previous system that involved headphones.

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