Iris: assistant for ones who can't see the screen

Iris is a voice that uses your computer for you. For 338 million people who are blind or have serious vision loss, a screen full of buttons is a wall. Screen readers help only where developers labelled every button; otherwise you hear "button, button, button". About 95% of the top million websites fail basic accessibility checks, so many people depend on a sighted helper. Iris removes that need. Say what you want in plain words ("did my grandson write?", "order more vitamin D") and Iris does it in the app on your Windows PC, tells you what happened, and asks out loud before anything that sends, pays or deletes. It needs nothing from the app's developer: an API when one exists (Gmail over MCP), otherwise the controls Windows sees and the keyboard. How it works: - AssemblyAI Universal-Streaming turns speech into text as you talk; pauses merge into one turn. A second backend runs on the Voice Agent API. - Qwen 3.5 4B on AssemblyAI's LLM Gateway plans the steps in under a second (Claude with one line in .env). - Iris Cloud, our server on Oracle Ampere, holds the keys: no keys or GPU needed. Audio goes straight to AssemblyAI; the server stores only usage counts. - A decision model (Jev, or Kev on your GPU) picks each control. Trust: 0 false yeses in 60 spoken answers, 0 risky actions let through in 40 unseen tests. A "no" ends the task. Passwords never reach a model. Accessible by design: "What's on my screen?", "Show me how", "Say that again", sounds for thinking and errors, mute with Ctrl+Alt+M. Business value: free for the person, paid by whoever carries the cost today: families, assistive-tech funders, employers, banks and telcos. The European Accessibility Act applies since June 2025. Team revived, lablab.ai (http://lablab.ai/) x AssemblyAI Voice Agent Hackathon. Open source, MIT.