Observed arrival · 2026-11-01
Ghostwriter: a family archive with a séance
An app designed to keep family stories on a laptop, turning recordings or written memories into an archive you can question later.
- For
- Families preserving spoken memories
- Worth noticing
- Its séance answers only from retrieved stories, cites the ones it used, and can admit when the archive has no answer.
Field notes
The page demonstrates the format with a browser-readable memory book built from fictional campfire, blackout, and family keepsake stories; the example includes a later answer and a retelling. The described workflow transcribes browser recordings with Whisper, uses names corrected in the archive to guide later transcription, and combines summaries with semantic retrieval for questions. The homepage links to the code, README, and credits; it says the app runs on the user's laptop, while the hosted page cannot run it.
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