An interpreting assistant system which provides to a user captions of auditory communications in the user's vicinity. The interpreting assistant system includes a smart microphone transmitter that defines an input device which converts auditory communications into audio signals and transmit the signals a translation device, with a smart phone defining the translation device which generates a text transcript from the audio signals and send the transcript file to a display device, with the display device being defined by a wearable display interface which displays the transcript for a user to see. When in use, the interpreting assistant system provides for the display of a real time transcription and display of auditory communications such as spoken words for a user that may have hearing difficulties.