Working R&D prototype
JarvisClassroom communication system
Jarvis was a working voice-controlled classroom communication and accessibility system. Speech was converted to text and displayed as captions on screens, and it could be used without keyboard interaction.
- Push-to-talk on handheld radio hardware, plus sound-threshold logic, defined conversation start and stop boundaries.
- Selectable large-format text supported readability at distance.
- Designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, second-language learners and multilingual groups.
- Teacher and facilitator control, with clear turn-taking, were central to the design.
- In the classroom configuration documented by Loopy: no recordings, no logs, and no audio transmitted outside the room.
Jarvis worked as an R&D prototype. It was not rolled out as a full commercial classroom product: a robust deployment would have required purpose-built hardware with dedicated on/off controls and substantially more hardware investment.
Status
Prototype, documented and retired. Not currently available commercially. The input-boundary and readability work from Jarvis informs everything built since.

