Everly is a voice-companion app that lets adult children clone their own voice so aging parents can have natural, familiar conversations anytime. It combines voice cloning, speech recognition, and AI-generated replies—in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese—delivered through a simple talk-and-tap interface. The product extends to bedtime stories, daily reminders, and preserving family history in a loved one's own voice.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Older adults living alone or far from family often experience loneliness and limited real-time connection with their children and grandchildren. Scheduled phone calls are missed, time-zone differences disrupt communication, and families struggle to maintain a warm, familiar presence for aging parents between actual conversations.
Solution
Everly is a voice-companion app that uses voice cloning to let an adult child create an AI version of their own voice, which then answers calls from their parent anytime, day or night. The parent talks naturally to the device, and the system processes speech through external AI services to generate context-aware, expressive responses in the child's voice. Families set up the service in one afternoon by recording a voice sample, personalizing the companion with memories, preferences, and reminders, then connecting it for their loved one. The companion remembers details from prior conversations, keeping interactions coherent and personal over time. Everly explicitly discloses to the parent that it is AI, not a real person, and is designed to supplement—not replace—real human relationships.
Target Audience
Primary users are adult children with aging parents or grandparents, especially families separated by distance or time zones, as well as those seeking to preserve family history and stories in a loved one's own voice.
Features
- Voice cloning that replicates the adult child's tone and expressive speech patterns from a short recorded sample
- Natural conversation generation with long-term memory that references prior chats, family details, and user preferences
- Support for English, Mandarin, and Cantonese with native speech patterns, not machine-translated output
- Personalized features such as bedtime stories, daily reminders, family photos, and shared inside jokes
- Optional "voice legacy" feature that preserves an elderly parent's own recordings as keepsakes
- Voice-verification preview allowing the child to approve the cloned voice before it is shared with the parent