Talk with Glow
Updated 2026-09-25T12:30:39.109413+00:00
Glow records a spoken life story in a guided conversation - no reading, no forms, just talking - so the memory keeper can capture what their parent or grandparent remembers, in their own voice, today.
Key takeaways
The problem Families lose the spoken story when no one records it before memory or health changes.
Core insight A guided spoken sitting captures more detail than written prompts because talking comes naturally.
Practical outcome Start a ten-minute sitting in Glow this week and save the first story in their own voice.
She just talks. Glow listens, asks one follow-up question, and saves every word. No reading, no forms, no preparation needed.
What you get from a sitting with Glow
A sitting is a spoken conversation in the app - on a phone or tablet - that captures a life story in real time. Here is what it gives the memory keeper today.
Record a spoken story with no preparation: the teller talks out loud with Glow and nothing needs to be written down or read aloud first.
Set the scope before you begin: one question, three questions, ten minutes, or open-ended - you choose the length and mark any topics off-limits in your own words.
Save each answer automatically: every response is preserved the moment it ends, so a long story never needs to be repeated if the session stops.
Hear one follow-up that stays close to what was just said: Glow asks about a detail the teller actually mentioned - a street name, a year, a person - never a guess.
Correct the transcript by hand: each recording comes with a transcript you can edit; Glow never overwrites a correction you make.
Return to what is still untold: Glow notes empty chapters from the archive - "Army years: 12 photos, no story yet" - and turns them into the next session's questions.
How a sitting works, start to finish
Five steps cover the whole sequence. You begin alone, in the app, and you can hand the phone to the teller when they are ready.
Choose who is telling, what the sitting covers, and how long it runs. Mark anything off-limits - war, health, money, or anything you name yourself - and set a gentle pace.
The teller talks out loud with Glow. If they find it easier to read, questions appear large on screen, one at a time, for someone who is hard of hearing or prefers to look.
No one is cut off mid-story. The time limit is only checked between answers, so a story in progress always finishes before the session closes.
Glow follows the story with one question built from what was just said - a corner bakery named in the answer, a year, a place already in the archive. It never asks from a guess.
At the end, Glow plans the next sitting from what is still untold, so the next question is already waiting when you come back.
The parts that matter
Four things make this different from a recorded phone call or a list of questions on paper.
About 400 questions, in Hebrew and English
Questions cover where they grew up, how they met, children, and work - and Glow builds additional questions from occasions, births and weddings already in the family timeline, so it asks about a life, not a photograph.
Gentle mode for memory loss or fatigue
Shorter questions about the distant past, fewer of them, photos on screen as memory joggers - and every fragment is saved however short it runs. "Roughly" is always a fine answer; Glow never corrects a teller.
Privacy built in from the first word
Only signed-in members of the family can hear or read the recordings - nothing is public, nothing is shared without your say. Glow keeps everything inside your private family space, separate from any public platform.
What happens after a sitting
The recordings and transcripts feed directly into Glow's Biographer and Historian feature, which turns the spoken answers into chapters written in the teller's own words - that is covered separately.
Coming soon: Voice Keepsake - a preserved recording of their voice, shaped from the sitting, to keep and share.
Start with one question
The window for this conversation is open now. A sitting takes ten minutes to begin, and the first question does not have to be the most important one - it just has to be asked.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is Talk with Glow different from StoryWorth or a shared Google Doc?
StoryWorth sends weekly written prompts and asks the teller to type a response. Talk with Glow is a spoken conversation - the teller never needs to read or write anything. For a parent who finds typing hard, or who tells a much richer story out loud than on paper, that difference is the whole thing.
How long does it take to set up, and what do I need to do first?
Open the app, choose the teller's name and language, set any off-limits topics, and pick a length - one question or ten minutes. That is the setup. The teller can start talking straight away.
What if the recording is quiet or the story comes out jumbled? Is that still worth keeping?
Yes. A quiet recording of your father describing his first job still carries his voice, his words, and details no one else holds. Every answer is saved with a transcript you can correct by hand. Glow never overwrites a correction, and it never judges what the teller says.
My mother's memory isn't what it was. Can she still do a sitting?
Glow has a gentle mode built for this: shorter, easier questions about the distant past, fewer of them, and photos on screen as memory joggers. Every fragment is saved however short it runs. "Roughly" is always a fine answer, and Glow never corrects or pushes.
Does Glow call on the phone to conduct the interview?
No. Sittings happen in the Glow app on a phone or tablet - there are no outgoing calls. The teller speaks with Glow directly in the app, and the conversation stays private to the family space.