Clear answers before you add an elder.

Join the waitlist at alfaaz.me. When your family is invited, you create a family account, add the elder's WhatsApp number, choose their language, add any useful context, and send the first voice-note prompt. Setup is designed to take about ten minutes.

They need the phone they already use for WhatsApp. There is no Alfaaz app, no elder account, and no password. If they can receive and reply to a WhatsApp voice note from family, they can use Alfaaz.

The setup flow gives you a short heads-up message you can send or edit before the first Alfaaz voice note. The first conversation only starts after a family member chooses a topic and sends it.

Yes. A family account can hold multiple elders. Each elder has their own WhatsApp number, language, conversations, memory, questions, and story archive so records stay clearly attributed.

A family member picks a suggested question or writes a topic. Alfaaz generates a warm opener in the elder's language, turns it into a voice note, and sends it on WhatsApp. Returning conversations can reference earlier stories so the exchange does not feel like a fresh questionnaire each time.

The first conversation is always started by a family member. After an elder has completed at least one session, Alfaaz can auto-send a suitable follow-up about every four days when enabled, outside India quiet hours. Families can pause this.

If a live conversation goes quiet, Alfaaz may send one gentle nudge after several hours when the story seems unfinished and it is not late at night in India. Thin or unanswered sessions can close silently. The elder is never forced to continue.

Claude generates one open-ended follow-up at a time from the current transcript, the chosen topic, and the elder's past memory. After a session ends, Alfaaz extracts people, places, events, emotional moments, and unfinished threads so future sessions can pick up with context.

Yes. They can say they do not remember, answer something else, pause, or stop. Alfaaz is meant to follow the elder's lead, not push through a script.

A typical session is a multi-turn WhatsApp voice-note exchange. The system starts wrapping up when the story feels complete and has a hard cap at 20 elder-assistant exchanges so a session does not run indefinitely.

Live elder conversations currently support Hindi, Indian English, and Marathi. Hindi/Hinglish code-mixing is supported within Hindi. Telugu is in review and not enabled for live elders yet.

Alfaaz uses ElevenLabs Scribe v2 for transcription. It works best when the speech is close to the selected language, and handles Hindi-English code-mixing reasonably well. Very dialect-specific speech should be discussed with us before onboarding so expectations are clear.

Yes. Code-mixing is treated as natural, not as an error. Elders can say 'Main office mein kaam karta tha' or switch mid-sentence without Alfaaz losing the thread. English proper nouns, place names, and family words are handled gracefully.

Each elder is configured for one primary language. Alfaaz does not switch the assistant language mid-conversation just because the elder uses a few English names or code-mixed phrases.

The family workspace shows conversations with transcripts and original audio, story summaries, life chapters, remembered people and places, open threads, and suggested next questions. These views become richer as more sessions are completed.

Yes. Incoming elder voice notes and outgoing Alfaaz voice notes are stored with the conversation so the family can listen back, not just read a transcript.

After each completed session, Alfaaz extracts people, places, events, emotional moments, and unfinished threads, then merges them into the elder's memory. Future sessions use that memory to avoid starting from zero.

Not as a polished self-serve feature yet. During early access, Alfaaz is a digital archive inside the family workspace. Export and print formats are on the roadmap and should not be treated as shipped today.

Yes. The family workspace supports shared family access, so invited family members can see the same elders, conversations, and growing archive.

No. Alfaaz does not use your family's recordings, transcripts, or story content to train AI models. AI processors are used to run transcription, interview generation, extraction, and summarization, but not to turn your family history into reusable training data.

Access is limited to the family account and invited family members, plus the service providers needed to run Alfaaz. We do not sell or expose family stories to advertisers or other families.

The trust page is the source of truth for processors, data location, deletion, model-training boundaries, and elder transparency. The privacy page has the longer policy summary.

Alfaaz is in invite-only early access. The waitlist is open, and families are onboarded deliberately so the product, archive quality, and trust model can mature together.

Early-access families are not currently being charged while the product matures. Public pricing will be published before any family is asked to pay. There is no quiet conversion from free to paid.

Yes. Alfaaz is built for Indian and diaspora families. A family member can manage the account from abroad while the elder receives WhatsApp voice notes in India. The asynchronous flow helps across time zones.

Yes. Alfaaz can be gifted to a parent or grandparent, but the family member who gives it still sets up the account, adds the elder, and starts the first conversation.