Family stories and voice legacy
When Words Remain: Leave more than memories. Leave your voice.
Record your stories, your way of talking, and your voice while you are here, so the people you choose can later have a conversation with you in your own voice. Recording is free to start; Annual is $149 a year and Lifetime is $1,499 once.
Visit When Words Remain →Recording is free to start. Annual $149 a year. Lifetime $1,499 once. Professional Voice add-on $799 a year (Annual plan only).
What When Words Remain does
- Record in short sittings. Sit down for ten or fifteen minutes at a time. A calm interviewer asks about your life, your people, and the things you know. You just talk.
- You approve what is kept. Read what was heard. Approve the stories that matter, fix the ones that came out wrong, and keep anything private to yourself.
- You choose who listens, and when. Only the Heirs you name can listen, only after an Executor you chose confirms your passing and a waiting period you set has ended. You can set an access age for younger family and put topics off limits.
- Clear about what is real. Every reply shows whether it is your exact words, based on what you shared, or a best guess. If someone asks about something you never shared, it says so.
- Rehearsal while you are alive. Talk to your own clone, rate each reply, and correct what it gets wrong. Those corrections change how it answers later.
- Your data stays yours. Recordings stay private by default. You give explicit consent before any voice cloning happens, and you can export everything or delete your account at any time.
Who it's for
People who want their children, grandchildren and friends to be able to hear from them later: parents and grandparents recording their stories, and adult children helping a parent get their memories down while there is time.
How it works
Record stories with the interviewer in short sittings, in any modern browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Review and approve what was heard. A voice model is built from your recordings once you give consent. Name your Heirs and an Executor, set a waiting period and any topics that are off the table, and when the time comes your people can talk with you by voice or text.
Questions people ask
What is When Words Remain?
When Words Remain is a service for recording your stories, your way of talking and your voice, so the people you choose can have a conversation with you later. It keeps a private collection of your stories in your own words, a profile of how you talk and what you value, and a voice model built from your recordings.
How much does When Words Remain cost?
Recording your first stories is free. The Annual plan is $149 a year and Lifetime is a single payment of $1,499 that never renews. Professional Voice, a closer-likeness voice model, is an add-on to the Annual plan at $799 a year with limited spots.
Will it make things up?
Facts stay locked. If someone asks about something you never shared, When Words Remain says so. Personality can improvise a reaction, an opinion or advice that fits your values, and every reply is labeled so your family knows which is which.
Who can hear it, and when?
Only the Heirs you name, only after an Executor you chose confirms your passing and a waiting period you set has ended. You can set an access age for younger family and put certain topics off limits for anyone.
Is my voice or my story used to train AI?
No. When Words Remain does not train AI models on what you share and does not let its AI providers do it either. Your voice model is built only with your consent, and you can withdraw that consent and have the model deleted at any time.
How do voice minutes work?
Each plan comes with one monthly pool of voice minutes shared by all your Heirs: 60 minutes a month on Annual and 20 on Lifetime. When they are used up for the month, your Heirs can keep talking by text, which has no monthly limit, until the voice comes back the next month.
Can I take my data with me, or delete it?
Yes. You can download everything you have made and delete your account yourself from Settings. Deletion waits 7 days in case you change your mind, then removes everything.
Guides
- How to record a parent's life stories (questions, setup and what to do with the recordings) — A practical way to get a parent or grandparent's stories recorded: how to ask, what to ask, a simple phone setup that sounds good, how to store the files, and how to let them answer in their own voice later.
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