LA HACKS · 2026

Speak it.We'll find it.

Accent is a local macOS accessibility tool that gives an LLM sight. Ask in plain words — in any language — and a glowing box highlights exactly where to click. Built for parents, grandparents, and anyone who's ever felt lost on screen.

Fully accessible - Accent can be used by anyone, no matter their ability
Your language in, your language out
Listening…
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Found it!
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The problem

Modern apps are a maze of unlabeled icons.

Tooltips disappear. Menus hide. Accessibility loses to design polish. For anyone who didn't grow up clicking, every app becomes a guessing game.

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For grandparents

Computers got smarter. The icons got smaller. Accent reads what's on the screen and walks them through it, one click at a time.

“Click the green call button.”
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For non-English speakers

Half the world runs English-only software. Speak in your language; Accent finds the right control and explains it back to you.

“Cómo activo los subtítulos?”
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For everyone, sometimes

Even fluent power users get lost in unfamiliar UIs. Accent is a universal “where is the button?” for any app, any time.

“Where do I share my screen?”
How it works

Three steps. Under a second.

Voice in. Bounding box out. The whole loop runs locally — Accent transcribes for speech, a vision classifier for the screen, an LLM to choose what matters.

01

Listen

Hold ⌘ + Space.

Ask whatever you want, in whatever language. Accent transcribes locally, on-device. Nothing leaves your Mac.

02

Look

We see what you see.

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Our CV classifier scans every clickable element on screen — buttons, icons, dropdowns — and tags them with bounding boxes the LLM can reason over.

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Lead

Found it.

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A glowing yellow box highlights exactly what to click next. A short caption tells you what it does. That's it.

Live demo

Pick a question. Watch us find it.

A simulated Google Meet window. Choose a query — Accent transcribes, classifies the visible UI, and highlights exactly where to click.

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Try a query
Pipeline
  1. Voice → Accent
  2. Screen → CV classifier
  3. Decision → LLM
  4. Highlight overlay
Meet the detective

A little character with a magnifying glass and a lot of patience.

Accent's mascot reflects the state of the system, in a single glance. So you always know what it's doing — and trust that it's not watching when it shouldn't be.

Listening
I'm all ears.
Dusting buttons for clues
Thinking…
Found it
Right here.
Why Accent

Built like a native tool — not a cloud bolt-on.

Every choice — local-first, voice-first, overlay-first — is in service of the people who need this most.

Speak any language

Ask in Spanish, Tagalog, Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic — anything Accent can hear. Captions stay native to your locale.

Real-time CV

A custom UI element classifier identifies every clickable region — buttons, icons, dropdowns — at 30+ FPS.

Accessibility-first

WCAG-aware contrast, screen-reader announcements, large overlays, and configurable voice speed.

See it for real

The whole story, in 90 seconds.

Watch a real Mac, real voice, real screen, real overlay.

Give your Mac a magnifying glass.

Accent is open source and built at LA HACKS 2026. Try it, fork it, ship it to someone in your family who'd use it every day.