🧶 Loom

The Digital Heritage Loom That Weaves Generations Back Together Before They Are Lost Forever

Preserve the voices that shaped you

The Silent Catastrophe

50%

of the world's 7,000 languages will vanish by the end of this century. Every one of them is a universe of stories, songs, and wisdom.

Hundreds

of dialects, oral traditions, recipes, remedies, and lullabies are dying with their last elderly speakers — unnoticed, unrecorded, unmourned.

One

grandmother holds an entire cosmos — the smell of her kitchen, the song she sang to her children, the story of her first rain — that disappears the moment she passes.

Each elder is a library of Alexandria in human form.
And we are letting them burn, one by one, in silence.

What Is Loom?

Loom is a mobile application that lets anyone record their elderly relative speaking naturally for just 30 minutes, then uses on-device artificial intelligence to construct a complete, interactive, conversational digital twin — their voice, their stories, their laughter.

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1. Record

Gentle, human prompts guide you through capturing your elder's stories, songs, and wisdom — no cold interview, just a natural conversation.

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2. Build

On-device AI constructs a voice model, a knowledge graph, and a preservation layer — completely offline, completely private.

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3. Talk

Decades from now, your grandchild can ask a question and hear their great-grandmother answer — in her own voice, with her own laugh.

Why This Changes Everything

🎨 Art & Culture Preserves intangible heritage — stories, songs, recipes — before they vanish forever.

🏛️ Museums Cultural institutions can host interactive exhibits where visitors converse with voices from the past.

📚 Linguistics Creates an unprecedented, community-sourced corpus of endangered dialects and oral traditions.

🕊️ Families Gives scattered families a living link to their roots that survives distance, displacement, and time.

🔒 Privacy-First All processing happens on-device. Data stays with the family. No cloud. No surveillance.

🌍 Open Archive Optional contribution to a community-governed cultural archive with transparent ethics and consent.

Built With Today's Technology

Loom does not require science fiction. It uses open-source AI that runs entirely on a mobile phone, with no internet connection needed after initial download.

Whisper.cpp On-device speech recognition supporting multiple languages and dialects

XTTSv2 Voice cloning from as little as 30 seconds of audio

Llama 3.2 Quantized 3B-parameter language model running locally on the phone

MiniLM Semantic search over memories for accurate, faithful answers

RAG Architecture Retrieval-augmented generation ensures the elder never says something they didn't actually say

100% Offline No cloud, no API keys, no surveillance — pure local AI you can trust

Who Is Building This?

Nicolas Barbara

Senior Mobile & Full-Stack Developer • 10+ Years Experience

I have built production systems across healthcare, fintech, and enterprise — in Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, the UAE, and Europe. I speak Arabic, English, and French. I understand the diaspora experience personally. And I have the technical foundation to integrate on-device speech recognition, voice cloning, and local language models into a working prototype. Loom is the project that unites everything I have learned.

This Is Just the Beginning

Loom is ready to be built. The technology exists. The need is universal. The impact is eternal.

Proposed for the MENA Digital Summer School 2026

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