How to Add Voice Recordings
Voice is remembered longest of all. A few recordings can bring back a person's presence more powerfully than any photo.
What to record
A favorite saying, a lullaby, birthday wishes, a familiar toast, an ordinary conversation at the table. Even short fragments from old videos, answering machines, and voice messages will do. Any scrap of a voice is priceless.
How to add it
Upload an audio file to the "Voice" section of the memory page. You can add a title and a transcript — the text of what's heard on the recording. Several recordings are better than one long one: they're easier to listen to.
Where to look for recordings
Check home videos, dictaphone recordings, voice messages in messengers, and digitized cassettes. You can extract just the audio track from a video. Ask relatives to share whatever they have.
Why a transcript matters
A transcript makes a recording readable and searchable, and clear for anyone who can't turn the sound on. Later, transcripts help train an AI copy to match the person's manner of speech, if the family wants a "revival."
- Sayings, songs, birthday wishes, conversations.
- Several short recordings beat one long one.
- Look in videos, messengers, on cassettes.
- Add a transcript.
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