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Follow-up: here’s the demo of the Echo(lifelike avatar) I posted about two days ago

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For anyone seeing this cold: EchoVault interviews you about your life across short sessions, then builds an avatar of you that the people you name can talk to after you die, in text, voice, or real-time video. Text is free and unlimited, no card. Two things worth watching for in the clip. It answer…

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  1. 2026-08-21 00:47 · r/ChatGPT
    Follow-up: here’s the demo of the Echo(lifelike avatar) I posted about two days ago

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