ગુજરાતી
All languagesAlfaaz asks in everyday Gujarati on WhatsApp, listens between answers, and keeps the original voice beside every family story.
To record your parents' stories in Gujarati, start with a small detail they can see again: the terrace on Uttarayan, the first customer in a shop, or a song Ba hummed. Alfaaz sends one such question on WhatsApp, follows the Gujarati answer, and preserves the recording inside a growing family archive.
“તમે કહ્યું કે ઉત્તરાયણે આખું ધાબું ભરાઈ જતું, એ દિવસે સવારે ઘરમાં શું શું રંધાતું, અને પતંગ કોણ ચગાવતું?”Everyday Gujarati sounds different from formal Gujarati and from Hindi translated into Gujarati words. તમે, કહો ને, યાદ, and વાત create a warmer conversation than stiff phrases. Alfaaz is configured to use that family-spoken register and to keep natural English work or school words when the elder uses them.
Alfaaz writes spoken questions in Gujarati script for reliable voice generation and always addresses the elder as તમે, never તું. It uses inclusive આપણે when the elder is part of “we,” respects Gujarati's three grammatical genders, and avoids defaulting to a religious greeting.
Follow the memory
Specific questions unlock scenes. Relationship words keep every person in the right place.
“તમે કહ્યું કે ઉત્તરાયણે આખું ધાબું ભરાઈ જતું, એ દિવસે સવારે ઘરમાં શું શું રંધાતું, અને પતંગ કોણ ચગાવતું?”Open the Uttarayan memory through food, people, and the terrace.
Gujarati kinship can identify the branch of a family, but it also contains ambiguity worth respecting. દાદી and નાની point to different sides; કાકા, ફોઈ, મામા, and માસી carry specific relations. બા can mean mother in one family and grandmother in another, so Alfaaz uses the story around the word before linking it to a person.
A Gujarati memoir should keep the family's own mixture of city, region, and household speech. Kathiyawadi, Surti, or Charotari color can be mirrored when the elder brings it. Honorifics such as -ભાઈ and -બેન stay attached as respectful aliases without becoming a different person in the archive.
Your parent only speaks. Alfaaz carries the structure, memory, and archive.
1,347 real replies
93%
of elder replies arrived as voice notes
2.1×
more words from an emotional question than a factual one
797
people, places, events, and things remembered
Yes. Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) is live in Alfaaz today. Your parent receives spoken questions on WhatsApp, replies with voice notes, and every answer is kept as original audio with a transcript and story summary.
No. Alfaaz is voice-first. Your parent listens to a WhatsApp voice note and answers by speaking. Typing is supported, but it is not required.
Yes. The original voice note stays attached to the story in the family archive. The transcript does not replace the recording.
No. The family member sets Alfaaz up. The parent only uses WhatsApp, with no Alfaaz account, password, camera, or new app.