Linger · for diaspora families
Your voice.In your parent’s phone.Always.
Linger puts your voice in your aging parent’s phone, always. We clone your voice with consent, hold the family memory, and keep your parent close to you, wherever in the world you are.
Live · in Henry’s cloned voice
Baba is on a call · Lagos, 8:32 AM WAT
No app for your parent. Works on the phone they already have: flip phone, landline, smartphone, in any country.
Diaspora abroad
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People living outside the country they were born in. (UN, 2020)
Aging in isolation
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Adults 65+ are socially isolated worldwide.
For your parent
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No app to install. Works on the phone they have.
Time to first call
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From signup to your voice on their phone.
The product
They aren’t talking to a robot.
They’re talking to you.
We clone your voice with your consent, watermark it forensically, and use AI to call your parent in your voice. The technology is invisible. The relationship is yours.
What a call looks like
When they answer, this is what happens.
Your voice. The breath, the pause, the rhythm. Carried across continents, held in their ear like you’re standing next to them in the kitchen. We don’t replace your call. We make it possible on every morning you can’t.
01
You speak
in your home
02
They listen
in theirs
03
We carry it
between you
How it works
A morning call.
In your voice.
Most parent-monitoring apps send you metrics. Linger sends you what they said, how they sounded, and whether anything has changed. And keeps them one ring away from hearing you, in the language and culture they actually live in.
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Record your voice once.
Sixty seconds reading a passage. Linger trains a private clone, watermarked, revocable, never shared. Each sibling records their own.
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They pick up the phone they already have.
Linger calls when you choose, or your parent dials in anytime. Flip phone, landline, smartphone, anywhere in the world.
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You wake up to a quiet note.
How they sounded. What they said. The thread that opened last week, closed today. The moment they shared with you, in your voice.
Built for big families
Six children.
Three time zones.
One elder.
When the family is scattered across California, London, Berlin, Lagos, Manila, Mumbai, Mexico City, your parent only hears the silence. Linger turns that silence back into family. Each sibling records their own voice. We rotate through the week, share one digest, and coordinate the things that matter.
- Up to 8 voice slots. per family pod. Each sibling owns and controls their own.
- One shared digest. what they said, who's been on call, what threads are open.
- Group coordination. “I'm in surgery Thursday. Can someone cover?”
Inside the call
Not a dashboard. A presence.
Memory that follows the conversation.
Linger remembers the knee that's been aching, the recital your daughter danced in, the storm your dad always loved. Open threads tracked across calls, quietly closed when the matter resolves.
Real conversation, not a chatbot.
Sub-second turn-taking and natural backchannels (the “mm-hm,” the “ehen?”, the “sí, mijo”) in your cloned voice. They can interrupt; we listen. Stay on for two hours; we stay with them.
A safety net you only notice when it matters.
If they fall or sound unwell, Linger reaches the right family member within seconds, and the local emergency service in their country if you've opted in. Nothing daily, no false alarms.
Live transcript · in Henry’s voice
Lagos
Two brains, one voice
Live · sync 3.2 Hz
Haiku 4.5
Sub-400ms turn-taking.
Backchannels, prosody, the “mm-hm” that keeps a call feeling alive.
Sonnet 4.6
12k-token working memory.
Open threads, escalation logic, the long arc of who they are.
Your family across the world
Many voices. One elder. One signal home.
Trust & safety
The most important thing we’re building isn’t the AI. It’s the trust around it.
- Voice clones are watermarked. Forensically detectable. Cannot be reused for scams.
- Linger is hard-coded to refuse: bank info, money transfers, OTPs, link-clicks. Even in your voice.
- Each sibling owns their own voice and controls their own data access.
- Your parent can refuse a voice. We respect every “no” instantly and forever.
- HIPAA-, GDPR-, NDPR-, and EU-AI-Act-aligned. Per-corridor data residency.
- Annual third-party ethics audit. Public transparency report.
Sample call
Listen to what they would hear.
A 90-second sample of a real call. Your cloned voice checking in, asking about sleep, remembering the knee that was sore last Sunday.
Live demo · Henry’s voice
Hear what your parent would hear.
Real founder voice. Cleaned, slowed, no background.
Common questions
What families ask first.
- Yes. We tell them once, at the family setup ceremony, not on every call. Linger isn’t pretending to be human; it’s carrying your voice when you can’t. The framing parents respond to: “On days I can’t call, I want you to still hear me. So I trained Linger to talk in my voice.”
Get in line
The next call they get could be yours.
Linger is rolling out one diaspora corridor at a time. Tell us where your parent lives. We open the door for families like yours first.