Eyewear having a speech to moving lips algorithm that receives and translates speech and utterances of a person viewed through the eyewear, and then displays an overlay of moving lips corresponding to the speech and utterances on a mask of the viewed person. A database having text to moving lips information is utilized to translate the speech and generate the moving lips in near-real time with little latency. This translation provides the deaf/hearing impaired users the ability to understand and communicate with the person viewed through the eyewear when they are wearing a mask. The translation may include automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) as a sound recognition engine.