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Echoes

History has a voice.

Upload a historical document, browse real archives, or describe an object you own. Echoes narrates the past - and lets you talk back to it.

Upload & Narrate

Archive Mode

Make any document speak

Paste or upload any historical document - letter, newspaper, diary, speech. Hear it narrated with full historical context, then ask questions and hear the archive answer back.

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Chronicling America

Discover Archives

Browse history, hear it live

Explore millions of real historical documents from the Library of Congress. Click any page from the past and hear it come alive with a cinematic narrator.

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Object History

The Heirloom

Every object has a story

Describe any everyday object you own. Echoes traces its entire history - from first invention through cultural evolution - and narrates it back to you.

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Impact

20M+

Archive Pages

Library of Congress

Studio

Voice Quality

ElevenLabs AI

Live

Conversation

Ask the archive anything

Instant

Narration

No signup required

Real Primary Sources

Every document in Discover mode is a real, digitized page from the Library of Congress Chronicling America collection - authentic history, not AI-generated text.

150+ Years of History

Browse newspapers, letters, and records spanning from the 1770s through 1963 - America's full story in its own words, made audible for the first time.

Cinematic Narration

ElevenLabs' most expressive voice models bring each document to life with tone, pacing, and gravitas that matches the weight of the historical moment.

“The past is never dead. It is not even past.”

William Faulkner - Requiem for a Nun

ElevenLabs - Library of Congress - Wikipedia