Heard Again
Family stories, preserved with care.
Preserve the voices, stories, and memories of the people who shaped your family. Heard Again gives your family a private place to collect recordings, photos, letters, and personal stories — and, when you choose, hear those memories narrated in a familiar voice again.
Your family's memories are never sold, never used to train public models, and never shared with third parties. Your family's legacy stays your way.
What We Provide: A Complete Family Legacy, Built Together
No one person remembers everything. Heard Again is a secure family story preservation suite. We provide the tools to convert physical memories into a private digital library, letting family members and trusted friends contribute their own memories to create a richer, more complete portrait of a life.
Private Voice Lab
Safely clone and preserve a loved one's voice from old audio recordings. The synthesized voice profile is private, securely stored, and used exclusively to narrate written family stories in their familiar voice with family consent.
Interactive Family Scrapbook
Create a rich digital history repository. Upload photos, scanned letters, personal documents, and audio tracks, link them to specific individuals, and view them on an interactive family timeline.
Smart Transcription Pipeline
Convert voicemail files, voice memos, video soundtracks, and oral interviews into clean, searchable, and formatted text. Our private, isolated processing ensures no third party hears your audio.
Collaborative Memories
Invite family members and old friends as contributors. Each person can safely add their own perspective, voice notes, photos, and stories, forming a multi-dimensional portrait of family history.
Private Family Archive
Over time, your family's contributions grow into a secure, searchable archive—a living memory library that future generations can explore, listen to, and continue to build.
Your Stories, Your Terms
Every memory you share stays yours — and only yours. No ads, no data brokering, no training AI on your family history. Just a quiet, secure space where your stories live on your terms.
Pass Down More Than Just Names
Every family history has gaps. Heard Again is designed to help you assemble a fuller, truer picture of your shared history. By gathering raw memories and collaborating across generations, your family heritage becomes alive.
Save Their Voice
Stop losing generations of memories to dead hard drives, broken phones, and aging tech. Before voicemail files get deleted or audio clips get lost, Heard Again lets you upload existing audio or video recordings to automatically extract, transcribe, and preserve the voices of your loved ones forever.
Supported formats & audio sources:
Voicemail Files
Voice Memos
Video Recordings
Audio Files (MP3, WAV)
Memory is Better Together
Heard Again is built for that collaborative magic. Each family member brings their fragment, and together you assemble a fuller picture of your shared history. Add your version of the story, see what your siblings remember differently, and build something truer than any single person's recollection.
Shared heritage benefits:
Multi-author stories
Contributor invites
Comments & discussion
Linked family trees
Voices of the Story
"Over time, your family's contributions become a private family memory library."
"I had old recordings of my mother, but they were scattered everywhere. Heard Again gave our family one place to preserve them and share the stories behind them."
Heritage Member
"My dad’s friends added memories I had never heard before. It felt like meeting another side of him."
Legacy Builder
"We started this for my grandmother, but it became something our whole family built together."
Family Contributor
Simple, transparent pricing
Choose a managed cloud plan for the easiest experience, or self-host Heard Again yourself if you prefer full technical control.
Cloud Access — Lite
For sharing and hosting stories, images, and data without AI features.
$4.99
/mo
Includes:
No setup required
Secure managed hosting
Automatic backups & updates
2 GB cloud storage
Easy family sharing
Consent and privacy tools
Support included
No AI narration or voice clones
Best for families who just want standard hosting and media/story sharing.
Cloud Access — Starter
For families who want a simple, secure hosted option.
$9.99
/mo
Includes:
No setup required
Secure managed hosting
Automatic backups & updates
30 minutes of voice generation / mo
Up to 50 voice profiles
Easy family sharing
Consent and privacy tools
Support included
Best for families just beginning to preserve their stories.
Cloud Access — Family
For families actively building their legacy library.
$19.99
/mo
Includes:
Includes all Starter features PLUS:
60 minutes of voice generation / mo
Priority voice processing
Advanced family tree linking
Priority support response
Easy family sharing
Best for families collecting stories from multiple relatives and contributors.
Cloud Access — Legacy
For families preserving a large collection of voices, memories, and stories.
$39.99
/mo
Includes:
Includes all Family features PLUS:
Unlimited voice generation
Priority support response
Dedicated success manager
Best for families building a long-term family legacy library.
Community Self-hosted
Heard Again is open source and available to self-host for free.
For developers, archivists, nonprofits, and technically comfortable families who want full control over their own infrastructure.
Benefits
Open-source self-hosting
Full control of your family data
Unlimited local storage based on your own hardware
Community-supported setup
Tradeoffs
Requires your own hosting
Requires your own backups
Requires your own updates
Requires your own storage and maintenance
Minimum System Requirements
Core archive (photos, documents, family tree)
4 CPU cores, 8GB RAM
20GB+ free disk space (grows with your media)
Docker & Docker Compose
Linux, macOS, or Windows (WSL2)
Local AI chat & voice cloning
8+ CPU cores, 32GB RAM
NVIDIA GPU with 24GB VRAM (e.g. RTX 3090/4090)
50GB+ free disk (AI models + generated audio)
Frequently Asked Questions
Heard Again is a secure and private legacy preservation vault, it is NOT a public social media network or marketing platform. There are no public feeds or open sharing unless you decide to share it broadly. Your space is fully customizable and can be open or closed, and you can specify who is allowed to see your family history/stories. We do not sell user data, monetize relationship details, or use ads.
Voice cloning is completely private and requires active consent. When you upload voice samples, our system uses an isolated, temporary computer processor to build the voice profile. This processor does not save your original audio recordings—it only reads them once to create the voice clone, and then immediately and permanently deletes the raw files from the processing area. The created voice profile remains strictly locked in your private space, and you can permanently delete it at any time.
No. Our transcription and Text-to-Speech (TTS) models process all audio in isolated environments. Your family records, audio, and stories are never used to train public models (like those from OpenAI or Google) and are never shared with other customers.
Your family owns 100% of the data and media. You can download a complete archive of your family stories and recordings or delete them entirely at any time. We believe in total data custody, so you always retain full ownership.
Yes! We offer a 14-day free trial on all plans—allowing you to set up your family space, try out the Voice Lab, and upload memories before your billing begins.
Begin with one story.
You do not need to have everything ready. Start with a voicemail. A voice memo. A favorite memory. A letter. A story your family always tells.
Heard Again gives your family a private place to preserve it — and, when the time feels right, a way to hear those memories again.