Aria
What it is
Section titled “What it is”Aria is a voice assistant that browses the web on your behalf. You speak a goal; Aria navigates real sites, reads back what matters, and acts — designed first for people for whom a mouse-and-screen workflow is a barrier.
The problem
Section titled “The problem”The web assumes you can see it and point at it. Voice interfaces usually stop at search and weather. Aria closes the gap: a spoken request becomes real navigation and action in a live browser.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”- Voice in — speech is transcribed into an intent.
- Plan — the agent decides the steps needed on the target site.
- Browser use — it drives a real browser: navigate, read the DOM, click, fill, extract.
- Voice out — results are summarised and spoken back, kept short and skimmable by ear.
speech ─▶ intent ─▶ plan ─▶ [ browser: navigate · read · act ] ─▶ spoken summaryWhat I’d highlight
Section titled “What I’d highlight”- An accessibility-first framing that shapes every design choice, not a bolt-on.
- Combining voice and browser/computer use in one loop — two hard things together.
- Summarising for the ear, not the eye: different constraints than a chat UI.
TypeScript · speech-to-text / text-to-speech · browser automation · LLM planning
Related
Section titled “Related”- Public sibling: BrowserMind
- Concepts: Voice agents · Browser & computer use · Accessibility agents
A walkthrough video goes here — this demo is much more convincing watched than read.