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Life-story video calls for your mother, father or grandparent · Vietnamese first

Your parent’s stories, in their own voice — kept for the family.

Mai is a warm AI interviewer who meets your parent by video call, in the language they speak at home, and listens to their life one story at a time. Your family gets short clips with subtitles, transcripts and a private family page. They just talk.

Book a free 15-minute setup callSee one session, start to finish
  • The first story is free
  • Recorded only after their own spoken yes
  • They never see a form, a password or a price
Thursday, 10:02 amCall with Mai
Mai is listening

Bà Lan is telling a story

“Má cười quá trời, mà Tết năm đó má vẫn bắt Bác mặc.”

“My mother laughed so hard — and still made me wear it that Tết.”

Invented example and illustration. Bà Lan is not a real person.

What it feels like · one family’s morning

Thursday morning, her tea still warm.

You open the call for her and step back. Mai greets her by name, in Vietnamese, and picks up where last week’s story stopped.

Then your mother starts talking — an oil lamp, a crooked sleeve, a Tết sixty years ago — and she laughs the way she only laughs in her own language.

The next day a one-minute clip is waiting on your family page, with English subtitles. Your daughter watches it twice. She has never heard that story. Neither have you.

This scene and the illustration beside it are an invented example of a typical session; your parent may be a father or a grandfather with stories of his own. We will only ever show a real family’s clip with the storyteller’s own recorded yes.

Bà Lan · a Tết, sixty years ago

The áo dài with two different sleevesIllustration · invented story
Invented illustration, not a recording. The silent demo below tells another invented story.

The blue áo dài.

Demo — invented story, AI interviewer

42 seconds · captions only, no audio. Invented characters and story.

Caption text · Vietnamese and English

Bà Lan is a placeholder portrait. After her yes, a sample family page shows the clip, “Family only”.

  1. Mai

    Bác có muốn kể về chiếc áo dài này không ạ?

    Would you like to tell me about this áo dài?

  2. Bà Lan · invented

    Đó là chiếc áo dài xanh mẹ may cho tôi hồi còn trẻ.

    It was a blue áo dài my mother made for me when I was young.

  3. Bà Lan

    Tôi nhớ mẹ ngồi bên cửa sổ, khâu từng mũi thật nhỏ.

    I remember her by the window, sewing tiny stitches.

  4. Mai

    Bác nhớ nhất điều gì khi mặc chiếc áo ấy?

    What do you remember most about wearing it?

  5. Bà Lan

    Mẹ khâu thêm một đường chỉ, để tôi mặc được lâu hơn.

    My mother added another line of stitching, so I could wear it longer.

  6. Mai

    Bác có muốn giữ đoạn này cho gia đình không ạ?

    Would you like to keep this part for your family?

  7. Bà Lan

    Có. Để các cháu biết cụ của chúng khéo tay thế nào.

    Yes. So the grandchildren know how skillful their great-grandmother was.

  8. Mai

    Câu chuyện của Bác đã được giữ lại cho gia đình.

    Your story is now kept for the family.

How it works

You make one call. They just talk.

  1. You book a 15-minute setup call

    We ask about your parent: what they like to be called, their language and dialect, the time of day they are at their best. No payment, no commitment.

  2. They talk with Mai

    Someone they trust opens the call on a familiar device. Mai says she is an AI, asks their permission out loud, then asks one question at a time and never rushes. Fifteen to thirty minutes; it ends when they say so.

  3. Your family keeps it

    Within a day, a short clip with subtitles and a transcript excerpt appear on your private family page. Siblings and grandchildren far away can watch, and send a question for next week.

Walk through a whole session

What your family keeps

Not a summary of a life. The person, telling it.

Their face, their pauses, the way they say your name. Every session adds to it.

Clips with subtitles

Up to three short clips a session, 30 to 90 seconds each, with Vietnamese captions and English subtitles — so the grandchildren who lost the language can still follow every word.

  • Cái áo dài hai tay áo so leThe áo dài with two different sleeves0:48
  • May đồ bên cây đèn dầuSewing by the oil lamp0:36
  • Căn nhà sát mé sôngThe house by the river1:05

Invented examples of clip titles, from the product demo.

  • Transcripts in two languages

    Their words as they said them, with English alongside. Nothing is rewritten into something they did not say.

  • A private family page

    One place for every session, visible only to signed-in family members your parent has agreed to. No search engine sees it. See the family page.

  • Ask Bà rolling out

    A grandchild types a question — “How did you meet Grandpa?” — and Mai brings it to the next session, in your parent’s language.

  • A life outline

    The periods, people and places of a life, growing week by week, so Mai never asks the same thing twice and nothing is left hanging.

  • A printed keepsake checkout opens soon

    A book of the year’s stories is part of the yearly plan. See pricing.

We are in early beta with our first families. Anything marked “rolling out” or “checkout opens soon” is exactly that; we will tell you on the setup call what is ready for your family today.

Language as home, not translation

Spoken the way they speak at home.

Mai speaks Southern Vietnamese the way a respectful younger relative would: she calls your parent “Bác” and herself “con”. When your parent needs a moment, she does not fill the silence with another question.

Halfway through, there is often a game of ca dao — the folk verses every Vietnamese grandparent knows by heart. Mai starts a line; they finish it.

Vietnamese is ready first. Other languages come one community at a time, and we will tell you honestly if yours is not ready yet.

When they need a moment, Mai says

Dạ… Bác cứ thong thả.

Take your time. There is no hurry.

Mai starts a folk verse

Công cha như núi Thái Sơn…

A father’s labour is like Mount Thái Sơn…

And they finish it

…nghĩa mẹ như nước trong nguồn chảy ra.

…a mother’s love like water flowing from the spring.

Care, consent and dignity

Your parent is the guest of honour. Not the product.

These are rules Mai follows in every session, not settings you have to find.

Read consent and privacy in plain words

  1. Their yes, in their own voice. Mai explains what is recorded and who will see it, then asks. A “no” is final, and nobody can consent for them.
  2. Mai always says she is an AI. She never pretends to be a person.
  3. No money, ever. Mai never asks your parent for money or personal details, and your parent never sees a price or an upsell.
  4. Heavy stories are not hurried. Mai stays with them. She never quizzes, and never corrects a memory painfully.
  5. Your family owns everything. Nothing is public by default. No ads. No data sales. Export and delete are real.

A note from Phuc, the founder

It began with my mother.

I started Solace Memories thinking about my mother. I want to make room for the stories we may not know to ask for, in the language that feels like home.

I believe listening should come with care. That means a patient pace, an honest AI, and the person telling the story deciding what stays private. My mother’s own recorded consent comes before any of her stories appear here.

— Phuc

Read the story behind Solace Memories

More ways to begin

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