Preserve the voice as well as the words
A transcript can carry the account of an event. A recording can also carry a pause, a laugh and the way someone tells it. Decide whether those qualities are central to the result you want. A polished narrative should remain distinguishable from the original recollection.
SEED’s proposed approach keeps both the underlying material and useful outputs. A chapter might connect a spoken memory with an old photograph or message. The intended benefit is context and traceability, not a claim that generated prose is a more authoritative account of a life.
Broader is not automatically better
If a relative wants to tell a few meaningful stories, a focused process may be easier to complete than gathering years of accounts and files. If you already have substantial history scattered across services, a wider preservation workflow may be worth the additional effort. Our complete version of that workflow is still being built.
Keep an independent copy
A printed story and the online recording it links to have different dependencies. Download the original material you care about, check that you can open it and keep a recoverable copy. A promise of continuing access should be evaluated alongside a practical exit.
The table reflects Remento’s published offer, not a hands-on test of the service or a guarantee about future availability. Our planned USB archive likewise needs a verified handover and compatible computer; it is not a promise that a physical object alone keeps every experience running.