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Augr : Voice Controlled AI Audio Biography Device

AI that talks, listens and interviews as you make a broadcast quality recording of your life story.

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Augr : Voice Controlled AI Audio Biography Device

Augr : Voice Controlled AI Audio Biography Device

Augr : Voice Controlled AI Audio Biography Device

Augr : Voice Controlled AI Audio Biography Device

Augr : Voice Controlled AI Audio Biography Device

AI that talks, listens and interviews as you make a broadcast quality recording of your life story.

AI that talks, listens and interviews as you make a broadcast quality recording of your life story.

AI that talks, listens and interviews as you make a broadcast quality recording of your life story.

AI that talks, listens and interviews as you make a broadcast quality recording of your life story.

The Augr Team
The Augr Team
The Augr Team
The Augr Team
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London, United Kingdom
$4,449 USD $4,449 USD 21 backers
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Augr is something completely new. An AI device that talks, listens and interviews as you make a broadcast quality recording of your life story. It's as easy as having a conversation with a friend. Simple and fun to use for everyone.

The device is programmed to respond to your voice, and then initiates conversations to help you tell stories from your past in a relaxed and natural way. It guides you as you reminisce, producing a broadcast quality recording of your life story. 

 

 

With the device comes a lifetime subscription to your personal, cloud-based biography space. Here you can upload your recordings, curate stories and choose who to share with. It's a home for your photographs, videos and written materials too.

 

 
 
 
The Augr device works using leading edge AI software, developed by our world beating team of software and hardware engineers. It's a team that brings together cutting-edge American technology and innovative British product design.

Based in New York City and in London, England, our people have worked tirelessly. It has taken us close to two years to develop the exciting AI concept that sits at the heart of Augr. It has been a remarkable journey.

We hope our technology will bring people of all ages together and help make the world a happier place. Its a fun thing to do. Listen for yourself to Mo (one of our supporters) as she talks with the Augr AI and reminisces about her mother.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The great thing about Augr is that it's so easy to use. It is 100% voice controlled. You just take it out of the box, turn it on and you are away. There is no need for any complicated apps or downloads. Just you, Augr and the stories that you want to record.
 
Augr is perfect for people who find technology difficult.
 
It offers all sorts of little touches to make the experience warm and friendly. You have a choice of four different Augr voices. Most importantly, you are the person in charge. You record at your own pace, in your own time and in your own way.
 

It’s a sad fact of history that stories of everyday people remain almost completely untold. Only the lives of the rich, powerful and famous are recorded.  It's a terrible loss, so we’ve decided to do something about it.

That was the inspiration for Augr.  To help people tell their own story, in their own way and their own voice. To give everyone the opportunity to record and share the story of their life with friends, family and the wider world.

 

 

Other people like what we are doing too. We have reached three million people on Facebook. Four thousand people registered with us pre-launch. And Augr has been featured on the BBC, Daily Telegraph, Metro and over a hundred titles in the US.

 

 

Our stories are so important. They help us to understand where we have come from and how we belong. They help bring families and friends together. And if there’s anything we’ve learned recently, it’s that we need to find ways to be forever close to the people that we love.

Recent research has confirmed how strongly people feel about this. 70% of people believe it’s important to keep loved ones’ memories alive forever. Three-quarters say they have stories they want to share that their families don’t know about.

Most people just don't get around to it, but when they do they find they have made something very special. Remembering and sharing our stories helps to bring back good times. They also bring families and friends closer together.

 

 

You can get your own Augr device by clicking on the perk box at the top of the screen. That offers a ground breaking AI device, a free lifetime subscription to the Augr biography space and (if you wish) the chance to add additional users.

Each device is capable of servicing up to five different user accounts. 

You will want to know the technical details too and when you can expect to receive it. Everything you need to know about the Augr device features and specification is outlined below, together with the project timeline.

 

Augr is set up as a non-profit organisation. It's aim is very clear. To help as many people as possible record and share their life stories. And to give people the freedom to do that in a safe and secure environment. 

You, as the user, will decide how you wish your recordings to be shared. Only you and the people you give access will be able to look at your data. The choice and control is all yours. Downloadable at any time, all personal data will be encrypted in transport and storage.

Most important of all, it is you who has full ownership of your recordings. Augr will lay no claim on the ownership or copyright of the recordings that you make. Augr will not make commercial use of your data and will enforce a total ban on digital advertising.

 

It has taken 21 years to get here! That was when Justin, our founder, first sat down with his grandfather to make a recording of his most treasured memories. It was a marathon session. At the end of it, they had seven hours of stories from when his grandfather was little boy, all the way through to his 80’s.

Unfortunately, his grandfather died soon after that. He was in his mid-eighties so he wasn’t a young man, but this was unexpected. He’d had a sudden heart attack. The family was devastated. They went back to the recordings and then they realised they had something amazing

They had all those wonderful memories captured forever.  Justin's grandfather telling his own stories in his own words and in his own voice. So although they had lost him, they hadn’t lost who he was, what he thought and what he sounded like. Hearing his voice brought them such joy.

 

Augr founder Justin Hopkins (with his wife Grainne) in Connecticut last year.

 

When things had settled a little bit, Justin thought it would be wonderful if he could help other people record and share their life stories and the stories of those that they love. To make sure their stories were told and  remembered in the purest authentic way.

Fast forward to 2014/15 when Amazon Alexa and Microsoft Cortana burst onto the scene, introducing AI speech recognition and command response algorithms that would change how we communicate with many of our devices forever.

For the first time Justin could see a way forward. He set up Augr to put together an AI based approach to personal biography and help make professional life story recording affordable for the average person.  He had the tools to make Augr a reality.

 

That is our story. If you like it, and you like what we are doing, then please share it with your family and friends. We want as many people as possible to be part of what we are doing.

 

 

 

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