Voice Log

Press the big button. Say anything. Press again when you are done.

Someone to talk to

Books

Reading

My recordings

Recording

For whoever is helping

Voice Log

What it is for

The three things on the first screen

The big round button — press once, he talks, press again when he is finished. It saves by itself.
Someone to talk to — a conversation. He speaks, it answers out loud, it waits for him. It never rushes him.
Read me a book — it reads aloud and keeps his place.

If it stops hearing him

Check the volume is up and the screen is awake.
Press Done, then start again. Nothing already said is lost.
If a permission box appears asking about the microphone, choose Allow.

Sending something to David

Open My recordings, pick one, press Send. Or ask out loud during a conversation: “send that to David.”

Please know

The voice is a machine, and it says so if he asks. It is not a substitute for a visit. It is there so that what he has to say gets kept, and reaches his son, at the hours when nobody is free to listen.

Who to contact

Settings

SYNC

VOICE

Provider Azure voice Speaking speed Built-in voice (used if Azure is unavailable) Azure key for local testing (leave blank in production) Azure region

In production leave both blank. The key lives as a Cloudflare secret and the app calls /api/tts.

HIM

His name Who he is — read before every conversation Send recordings to Your name, as he hears it Your phone, for the helper card

ASSISTANT AND INTERFACE

Anthropic key for local testing (blank = /api/claude) Model Text size Auto-stop a recording after

Settings live per browser and override config.js on that machine only — which is how one device ends up on the fallback voice while another is fine. This clears them. Recordings and books are untouched.

WHAT THE COMPANION REMEMBERS

Rewritten by Claude after each conversation so it does not meet him cold. Edit or clear freely.

REMOVED RECORDINGS

Nothing is deleted from the device. Removed items are hidden from him and listed here.