There is a particular kind of guilt that belongs to parents who are not there at bedtime. Not for good reasons or bad ones — a work trip, a night shift, a job in another city, a flight that was always going to be on a Tuesday.
You can telephone. But a phone call at bedtime is its own small heartbreak: the excitement of hearing you, then the disappointment of you going. It wakes a child up rather than settling them.
A recording does the opposite. It stays.
How it works
You record a short sample in the app, once. From then on, the stories your child listens to can be narrated in your voice — including the personalised ones, with their own name woven in and pronounced the way you say it.
It works in all seven languages, so a grandmother can record in Marathi and a father in English, and the child can have whichever the night calls for.
Who tends to use it
Parents who travel
The stories carry on in your voice while you are in a different time zone.
Night-shift parents
Doctors, pilots, anyone whose bedtime is somebody else's working hours.
Grandparents far away
Dadi in Nagpur reading to a grandchild in Toronto, every night rather than on Sundays.
Separated families
A parent who is not there on Tuesdays can still be the voice on Tuesdays.
The rules, because it is your voice
This is the most sensitive thing StoryVeda holds, and it is treated accordingly:
- You confirm the recording is yours before it can be used at all.
- It is used only for your own family's stories — never for another user, and never to train a model.
- Only your family can hear it.
- You can delete it whenever you like, from Profile → My Voices, and it is gone for good.
The technical detail, since you should know it: recordings are processed through ElevenLabs to generate the narration. That is set out in full in our privacy policy and on the child safety page.
Get it on Google PlayFree to start · record in the app iOS version coming soon