Heard Again
Hear their voice again — with no setup.
Upload the recordings your family already has — voicemails, voice memos, old video. Heard Again builds a private voice profile from them, so written family stories can be read aloud in a familiar voice. No GPU, no install, nothing to configure. We run it for you.
It is also a private place to keep the photos, letters, and stories that go with those voices.
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
We have no customer quotes yet
Heard Again is new and nobody is paying for it yet. Rather than invent a family, here are three things you can verify yourself before you trust us with a recording.
Read the code before you trust it
Heard Again is MIT licensed and the whole application is public. You can read exactly how uploads and voice profiles are handled before you send us a single recording.
View the source→No third-party voice API sees your family
Voice synthesis runs on our own GPU service using the open Qwen3-TTS model. Your recordings are not sent to ElevenLabs, OpenAI or any other outside voice provider, and they are never used to train public models.
See the voice service→Leave whenever, and take everything
Export a complete archive of your stories and recordings from your account at any time. The 14-day trial asks for a card at signup but charges nothing until day 15 — cancel before then and you are not billed.
See what each plan costs→Simple, transparent pricing
Choose a managed cloud plan for the easiest experience, or self-host Heard Again yourself if you prefer full technical control.
Why pay, when the code is free?
Heard Again is MIT licensed. You can download it and run it yourself at no cost, forever — and the paid plans do not unlock extra features you cannot get that way.
What you pay for is not having to run a GPU. Voice work needs one. Self-hosting means you buy or rent that hardware, install the models, keep the machine patched, and do your own backups. On a cloud plan we keep the GPU, the updates, and the backups running, and you just upload audio. That is the whole difference.
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
10 GB cloud storage
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
25 GB cloud storage
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
100 GB cloud storage
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.