MemoriaViva: A Cute Ghost in the Machine That Preserves Family Oral Histories & Heirloom Recipes with Gemma 4 & Google ADK

MemoriaViva is an open-source AI project that preserves family oral histories and heirloom recipes using Google’s Gemma 4 model and Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK). The software treats a “Ghost in the Machine” – a cherished family memory – as something to be celebrated, like the 48-second WhatsApp voice notes or handwritten recipes that hold cultural significance.

MemoriaViva listens to fragmented family voice recordings and handwritten notes, preserving the exact words and poetic measurements elders use. It converts these poetic units like “a handful” or “a three-finger pinch” into precise metric measurements (grams and milliliters) with 100% deterministic accuracy. The software then compiles these records into a 50-year archival HTML5 family storybook that can be accessed without an internet connection, ensuring privacy and security by transmitting zero bytes of data.

For example, it converts a grandmother's handwritten recipe for monsoon ginger kahwa into reproducible metric amounts like 180ml of whole warm milk and 4.4g of cardamom pods. The system validates and locks in these culinary ratios, preventing guesswork that often leads to culinary errors across generations. By maintaining this precious family knowledge locally, MemoriaViva helps ensure that elders’ culinary instincts and oral stories aren’t lost when they’re gone.