For narrators who can't use voice
This page is for people who want to make a book but can't, or shouldn't, speak it aloud. Memoir works for you too, with no euphemisms and no second-class version. Here is exactly how.
Voice isn't available to everyone, or in every room. Text input is a first-class way in.
When speech is hard
After a stroke or with aphasia, a vocal-cord injury, MND or ALS, dysarthria: the words are still yours, even when saying them out loud isn't simple.
A hearing world's friction
For Deaf narrators and signed-language speakers, writing is often the most direct way to tell a story on your own terms.
When the room demands silence
Operational silence in the field, a sleeping infant's nap, an open-plan desk: sometimes you simply can't say it out loud.
When the connection won't hold
On a slow or unreliable uplink, text travels where an audio upload can't, so distance never costs you the book.
How text mode works
Write a session whenever it suits you. It runs through the very same pipeline as a recording, and produces the same quality of book.
- Per session
- 50–2,500 words
- Pipeline
- Identical to voice
- Result
- The same finished book
Everything you keep
- A structured outline and chapters
- Harmonization across every session
- Biographical record and conflict detection
- Export to EPUB, PDF, and DOCX
The one thing that changes
Your book is written in a clear literary register in your own language, rather than carrying the cadence of your spoken voice. Everything else is exactly the same, and the book is still entirely yours.
Our standard
We hold new screens to WCAG 2.1 AA: contrast of at least 4.5:1 for text, visible focus for every interactive element, touch targets of at least 44 pixels, and full keyboard operability. If something falls short, we treat it as a bug, not a preference.
A longer window to be sure
Because text-only narrators may need two or three sessions before knowing the voice is right, we extend the money-back guarantee from fourteen days to thirty: trust-based, with no documentation required.
Tell us what gets in your way
If any part of Memoir is hard for you to see, hear, or operate, write to us. A person reads every message.
The book is still entirely yours.
Start writing whenever you're ready. No recording necessary.