Why we built it
Coding tools are built around the screen. You scan a diff, click a button, spot the red line in a terminal. A screen reader can read those things aloud, but the tools were never designed to be heard, so blind developers end up working around them or asking someone to look.
Artemis starts from the other side. Speech and the screen reader are the main interface, not an add-on. A developer should be able to open a project, ask for a change, review it, run it and find out what went wrong, without looking at the screen.
- You decide every change. Nothing in your project is written or run without your approval, and a spoken "yes" never counts.
- Every result is real. Programs really run, and you hear what they actually printed.
- Errors are never softened. A failed run tells you the exit code and the final error line, word for word.
The team
Four people, each owning their own part, built at HackUMass 2026.
David RibeiroTeam lead. Built the Claude coding agent and the safety gate: paths stay inside your project, approvals bind to the exact change, and a security scan blocks risky code.
AveryBuilt the core that tracks every task and approval, the runner that executes approved programs, Echo Check and the launcher. Reviews every pull request.
Jun OleaBuilt the desktop: the island at the top of the screen, the droplet that shows where Artemis is working, and approval dialogs that take focus so your screen reader lands on them.
Yaovi AgblamiBuilt the voice: speech recognition that stays on your computer, the “Hey Artemis” wake word, listening tones, and Artemis’s own voice through ElevenLabs, with an offline voice as backup. Built this site. Presenter.
All of Artemis, including this site, is open source on GitHub.