@hedgerow I need to clarify my comment on captioned glasses for theaters versus captioned glasses that have come out this past year for conversation, such as Captify. The glasses for theaters work differently. The theater spends the 1st week of a new play capturing the conversations in the performance (the script) and inputting it into the glasses. Sort of like programming the glasses. So the glasses are not available typically for the first week of a new production. When they are available, assuming the actors/actresses don't ad lib too much, then the inputted script is what goes across the screen on your glasses. You can be in the 1st row or the last row of the theater and still have the same script running across your lenses. You can also adjust where the captions run across your 'screen' - at the top of the lens or at the bottom depending on where you are sitting. Glasses like Captify are reliant on tiny microphones on the frames that pick up the speakers and using Speech to Text, having the conversation run across your lenses. They work just like captioning apps on your phone.

Because I would use them for close conversation, I would not wear them on top of my prescription glasses. You can get prescription lenses for Captify glasses (they are the only one I tried at the HLAA Convention). I plan on buying a pair this Fall after some more research.