Creating a Story from Memories

Learn how to create and share stories from recorded memories.

This guide covers how to turn a recorded memory into a written Story.

One of Ember's best features: have a relaxed conversation, get a transcript and summary automatically, and then create beautiful, meaningful written pieces from it.

From your home screen, tap a memory card to open Memory Studio, where you can listen to the audio, add photos, and generate stories. Find the Stories section and swipe through the styles — Light & Fun, Historian, and Memoir — and, where available, languages. Not every language is ready yet, but more styles and languages are added over time.

Tap Generate Story and Ember writes a draft for you. This usually finishes quickly, though very long conversations can take a few minutes.

When the draft is ready, open it to read, edit, and refine. Keep it private in the app, or tap Share Story to publish it — Ember creates a public link you can send to anyone. Edit and republish any time, and the same link updates to the newer version.

You can shape a story further with a genre and tone (for example Memoir, Poem, or Short Story, in a Funny, Poetic, or Heavy voice) and a creativity setting from Less Creative to More Creative.

If you're a writer and would like your story considered for Ember's featured stories, you can request an editorial review. If we love it, we'll publish and feature it.