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Say hello to Earful

We’re excited to share what we’ve been building: Earful, an open-source voice survey tool that lets people answer questions by talking — and uses AI to turn those replies into something you can actually use.

The problem with the text box

Ask an open-ended question in a normal survey and most people leave it blank, or type “n/a”. It’s not that they have nothing to say — it’s that typing a thoughtful answer is work. So we lose the most valuable feedback there is: honest, specific, in-their-own-words responses.

What Earful does

Earful flips the interaction. Respondents tap record and simply speak. From there, the AI takes over:

  • Transcription — clean, readable text from every spoken reply.
  • Summaries & insights — per-answer summaries plus recurring themes and sentiment across your whole audience.
  • Translation — replies in any language, readable in yours.

The result is the depth of a real conversation at the scale of a survey.

Open source from day one

Earful is open source and self-hostable. Run it yourself, keep your data, inspect how everything works, and shape where it goes next.

Come say hello — and if you like where this is headed, a star goes a long way.

Check out Earful on GitHub

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