India, Oct. 31 -- Entrepreneurs Aarush Yadav and Arnav Kumar have raised $1.3 million in pre-seed funding for their startup, The Subvocal Company, to develop eyeglasses that enable users to communicate with computers without speaking aloud. Backed by Y Combinator, the San Francisco-based wearable technology company uses radio-frequency sensing to detect micro-facial movements made during silent speech and translate them into text in real time.

"We've raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again," Aarush Yadav tweeted while sharing a video of the product.

He said that he and his co-founder developed the product because they think "Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward." He claimed that the...