Feature
Record the stories in the voice that told them
A written memory keeps the facts. A recorded one keeps the person — the pause before the punchline, the way your grandmother says your name. KeepSaiQ is built voice-first because that is the part families most regret not having.
Twenty seconds, not twenty pages
The unit of capture is one short answer to one gentle question. No typing, no editing, no blank page to stare at.
Transcribed automatically
Every recording becomes searchable text, so a story told out loud can still be found years later by a word inside it.
Prompted, so nobody freezes
"What is something you hope never changes?" is easier to answer than "tell me about your life." The prompt does the hard part.
Private to your family
Recordings are encrypted in transit and at rest and visible only to the family members you invite. Not used to train AI.
Why voice is the right unit of family memory
Most family-history tools ask for writing. Writing is a high-effort, high-anxiety format: it invites editing, and editing removes exactly the texture that makes a memory feel like a person. The result is a folder of well-formed paragraphs that sound like nobody in particular.
Speech is the opposite. It is fast, it is unselfconscious, and it carries information that text cannot encode — timing, warmth, hesitation, the specific way a family pronounces a place name. When people describe what they wish they had of someone who is gone, they almost never say "a document." They say they wish they could hear them.
So KeepSaiQ makes speaking the default and typing the exception. You tap once, you talk for twenty seconds, and you are done. The system handles structure, transcription, and connection afterwards.
How a recording becomes part of the family story
A voice note does not sit alone in a list. Once it is captured, KeepSaiQ transcribes it and looks for what it has in common with everything else your family has added — the same kitchen, the same tradition, the same feeling described by three different people in three different decades.
That is what turns a pile of recordings into something you can actually use. A search for "the kitchen at Abuela's" returns a thread that runs from a grandmother in 1972 to a nine-year-old last summer, in each of their own voices.
Recordings also feed the things your family gets back: short montages, recaps, connection games built from your own memories, and time capsules that stay sealed until the day they are meant to be opened.
What happens to the audio
Voice recordings and transcripts are stored inside our own cloud infrastructure, encrypted in transit and at rest, and visible only to your family. They are not used to train AI models, and the providers that process them do not use them to train theirs.
Deletion is fast and literal. When you delete a recording it is purged within minutes rather than held for a recovery window, and the transcript is deleted with it — a transcript is a verbatim record of the same conversation, so erasing one without the other would defeat the deletion entirely. Deleting your account runs the same erasure across everything you added.
Getting a reluctant relative to record
The most common obstacle is not technology, it is self-consciousness. Two things reliably help. First, never ask for a story — ask a question. "Tell me about Grandpa" produces a freeze; "What did his workshop smell like?" produces two minutes of detail. Second, keep the first session short enough to feel like nothing. One question, one answer, done.
Ordinary questions outperform momentous ones. What was on the radio. What the house sounded like on a Sunday. Who was the loudest at dinner. These are easy to answer and they carry more of a person than a summary of their biography ever does.
Common questions
- How long should a family voice recording be?
- Twenty seconds is enough, and it is the length KeepSaiQ is designed around. Short recordings get made; long ones get postponed. A single specific answer — one memory, one detail — is more useful later than a rambling life summary, and it is far easier to ask someone for.
- Are the recordings transcribed?
- Yes. Each recording is transcribed automatically so it becomes searchable text alongside the audio. You keep both: the transcript makes a memory findable, the audio keeps the person.
- Who can hear our family's recordings?
- Only the family members you invite. Recordings are encrypted in transit and at rest, are visible to nobody outside your family, and are not used to train AI models.
- What happens if I delete a recording?
- It is purged within minutes rather than held in a recovery window, and its transcript is deleted with it. That deletion is not reversible, which is deliberate — a voice recording is one of the most personal things a family can store.
- Can older relatives use it without help?
- The recording flow is a single tap and a spoken answer, with no typing, editing, or file management. Most of the difficulty in family-history projects comes from asking people to write and organize; removing both is the point of the design.
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