Aeterna

Aeterna is an interactive digital legacy platform designed to help individuals preserve their personal histories, memories, and voices. This platform features AI-guided interviews that prompt users to record their experiences, thoughts and stories. These recordings are then transcribed, analysed, and organised into a searchable, interactive digital archive that family members can explore. A unique feature of Aeterna is the 'Digital Twin', a conversational AI representation of the user based on their recorded stories. Aeterna also features a secure, private digital vault for storing photos, documents, and letters. The platform ensures strong data privacy measures through AES-256 encryption.

Users engage with Aeterna through weekly AI-guided interviews, where they would record voice notes responding to various prompts. Aeterna's AI then transcribes these voice notes, carries out sentiment and theme analysis, and organises the content into a searchable digital archive. Apart from voice recordings, users can also upload personal photos, documents and letters, enhancing the richness of the digital legacy. Family members can interact with this archive using natural language questions and can also converse with the 'Digital Twin', an AI representation of the user. All information is securely stored in a private digital vault that employs AES-256 encryption.

The purpose of the weekly prompts on Aeterna is to guide users in recording their life stories, personal memories, and thoughts. These prompts stimulate reminiscing activities and reflections, breaking down the grand task of documenting one's life into manageable weekly sessions. The prompts, thoughtfully designed, help users to discuss various aspects of their lives and preserve their voice for posterity.

Aeterna's AI transcribes audio recordings using advanced transcription technology. It converts spoken language into written text, generating an accessible, searchable record of the voice notes taken during the AI-guided interviews. This process ensures that the content of the recordings is easily indexed and retrievable.

Aeterna carries out sentiment and theme analysis on the recorded stories. This involves identifying emotional cues and main subjects within the audio records. The AI can discern emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, and other sentiments present in the speeches. Concurrently, it identifies the core ideas or topics discussed in the recordings. This analysis allows Aeterna to understand and organise the content better, facilitating an interactive, searchable archive that can effectively respond to natural language queries posed by the family members.

Family members invited by the user can interact with the Aeterna archive. They can use natural language queries to explore the archive, listening to the responses in the user's own voice. Furthermore, they can interact with the user's ‘Digital Twin’, a conversational AI that mimics the user’s personality based on their recorded stories. They can access the legacy anytime and from any device.

The 'Digital Twin' feature on Aeterna is a conversational AI that mimics the user. It provides an interactive representation of the user, using the user's life stories, recorded memories, and voice as its base. Family members can converse naturally with the ‘Digital Twin’, enabling them to experience the presence of their loved one and learn from their wisdom.

Aeterna's digital vault is secured with AES-256 encryption, a bank-grade security standard. This encryption level ensures the utmost safety of the stored content, which includes voice recordings, photos, documents, and letters. User data is encrypted both at rest and in transit, guaranteeing that personal information remains secure and private.

The 'Family Sharing' feature on Aeterna allows users to invite family members to access and explore their digital legacy. Invited members can browse the interactive archive, listen to the recorded stories in the user's own voice, and interact with the user's 'Digital Twin'. They can do this anytime and from any device, making the user's legacy easily accessible to loved ones.

The AI-animated video portraits on Aeterna are unique visuals created from uploaded photos. The AI brings these photos to life, creating a moving portrait that adds a visual element to the user's digital legacy. The animated portraits are included complementarily in some of Aeterna's subscription plans.

Aeterna uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with a key size of 256 bits for data security. This encryption level is robust and is considered a bank-grade security standard, used by financial institutions and governments to secure sensitive data.

Yes, users can upload personal documents to Aeterna along with voice records. The platform features a private digital vault, which can store photos, documents, and letters. This encourages the addition of visual memories and important artifacts to user's digital legacy, creating a more comprehensive archival record.

If a user decides to stop using Aeterna, their data remains securely stored on the platform. Aeterna's policy ensures that a user's vault, memories, and digital legacy archive stay safely preserved even after subscription cancellation. Users can always access their data, as it is never deleted or sold.

Yes, offline access to a user's Aeterna digital legacy is possible through the 'Aeterna Time Capsule'. This product is an offline heritage server connecting to any TV via HDMI, enabling families to explore the digital legacy without requiring internet access.

The 'Aeterna Time Capsule' is a private, offline heritage server. It allows for the offline access and exploration of a user's digital legacy, even without internet connectivity. This Time Capsule, priced at a one-time payment with no monthly fees, may still function even if Aeterna's servers no longer exist and includes lifetime storage with a lifetime guarantee.

Aeterna emphasizes user data privacy by encrypting all the data, both at rest and in transit, with AES-256 encryption. This is the same encryption standard used by banks & governments. The platform also commits to a strict policy of never selling or sharing user data to third parties. The users are in control of their data and can determine who gains access to their digital legacy.

The process of voice preservation on Aeterna involves recording voice notes in response to weekly AI-guided interview prompts. Once these notes are recorded, they are automatically transcribed by the AI and undergo sentiment and theme analysis. Afterward, the content is organised into a searchable, interactive digital archive available for future generations to explore, in the voice of the recording individual.

The AI guide interviews on Aeterna by asking thoughtful questions on a weekly basis. These questions prompt users to share their early childhood memories, life experiences, wisdom, and thoughts. The AI ensures that users can discuss their histories at their own pace, gradually building up a comprehensive record of their life stories.

Yes, Aeterna's digital archive can respond to natural language queries. Family members, once they have the necessary permissions, can ask questions directly to the archive, interacting with the content in the style of a natural conversation. The archive would provide audio responses in the voice of the original recording individual to answer their queries.

Yes, Aeterna can generate audio responses in the voice of the original recording individual. When family members ask natural-language questions to the archive or the 'Digital Twin', responses are generated based on the recorded interviews. These responses come in the user's own voice, providing a realistic, interactive experience for family members querying the archive.