EchoVault: Some Memories Refuse to Disappear

Description and use

EchoVault turns voice recordings into searchable memories locally, extracting people, places, traditions, and moments, and linking AI‑generated details back to the original transcript for verification.

Problem

Family voice recordings become hard to locate and lose context when stored in raw audio files.

Outcome

EchoVault enables local, privacy‑preserving extraction and search of memories from voice recordings, linking AI‑generated details back to the original transcript for verification.

Workflow

• Upload voice recording
• faster-whisper transcribes audio to text
• transcript is reviewed and edited
• Qwen 2.5 extracts people, places, traditions, moments
• Ghostlight links extracted details to supporting transcript sentences
• Structured memory is stored in the Memory Vault
• User queries memory via Ask This Memory; answers are grounded in transcript

Evidence

EchoVault is a local-first AI memory vault that turns family voice recordings into searchable stories.

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faster-whisper converts the speech into text locally.

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Qwen 2.5 identifies details explicitly mentioned in the transcript, including people, places, family traditions, and important moments.

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Ghostlight connects extracted details to supporting sentences from the original transcript.

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The current version runs locally on the user's computer. It is not yet a publicly hosted, one-click website.

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