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A KATARUU is a short professional audio episode built around your voice and your experience. KATARUU generates custom interview questions based on your background, a professional voice asks them, and you answer out loud. The result is a polished audio episode — produced, transcribed, and scored — ready to share on LinkedIn, post anywhere with one link, embed on your site, or download as an MP3 that's yours to keep.

About 15 minutes end to end. The part that needs you — telling us your story and recording your answers — takes just a few minutes; KATARUU handles the production, transcription, and scoring while you wait.

Yes. The free tier gives you one active episode at a time — three questions, up to 2 minutes per answer, a professional voice, a finished episode, and a public share link active for 7 days. No credit card required.

KATARUU ($4.99/month or $39/year) gives you 60 minutes of new recordings per month, 5 or 20-minute sessions, up to 10 custom questions per session, episodes that stay accessible while subscribed and for 90 days after cancellation, a full KATARUU Score, full transcripts, and your own public voice profile at kataruu.com/k/yourname.

The KATARUU Score is a number out of 100 that reflects how clearly your voice lands with listeners. Your Delivery Score (out of 80) is generated by Google Gemini across four dimensions: Clarity (how easy you are to follow), Structure (how your answer is organised), Confidence (the steadiness in your voice), and Insight (the depth of your perspective). That Delivery Score is then blended 70/30 with your Reach Score — which tracks listens, completion rate, and listen volume — to produce the final 0–100 number. Reach updates over time as your episode is listened to.

No. Your voice recordings are processed only to produce your episode. Neither KATARUU nor our AI providers (Deepgram, Google, Anthropic) use your recordings to train AI models. You can read our full privacy policy at kataruu.com/privacy.

This can happen if your browser had trouble saving the recording. Go to your session output page and tap "Regenerate episode" to rebuild it. If the problem continues, please start a new session — it takes about 10 minutes and your new episode will work correctly.

Yes. Go to your account page, find the episode, and tap Delete. Free tier episodes are automatically deleted after 7 days. KATARUU (paid) episodes remain accessible while subscribed and for 90 days after cancellation. Studio episodes are guaranteed for 24 months after cancellation. You can also hide an episode at any time — it stays yours but disappears from public view instantly, and you can unhide it whenever you like.

KATARUU Studio ($19.99/month or $149/year) is your living body of work — every episode intelligently connected, remembered, and curated on one permanent link. It includes everything in KATARUU plus unlimited active episodes, 2 gift credits per calendar month, private episodes, one-click LinkedIn post drafts, downloadable transcript PDFs, the full analytics suite, and a 24-month post-cancellation guarantee on your episodes.

Yes. A single episode is $29 and a bundle of five is $99. The recipient gets an email with a redemption link — or the giver can share the link directly (LinkedIn DM, text, however they like). Unredeemed gifts expire 90 days after purchase. Gifts are refundable within 14 days of purchase if they have not yet been redeemed (see our Refund Policy).

A Studio feature: a private episode is playable only via its direct share link and is absent from your public timeline (kataruu.com/k/username). Anyone who has the link can still listen.

Two kinds. Transactional messages (sign-in links, episode-ready notifications, receipts, account notices) come with the account and cannot be turned off. Product-update and prompt messages — including the occasional personalized question inviting you to record again — are governed by the "Product updates & prompts" toggle in your Account settings, which is on by default. Every such email tells you how to stop.

Open your Account page and use the Your Data section to request an export. You'll receive a JSON bundle by email containing your profile, sessions, episodes, referrals, gifts, follows, invites, and nominations. You can request one export per 24 hours.

Yes — on Studio. A Transcript PDF button appears on any finalized episode's output page.

Go to your account page and tap "Manage subscription." This opens the Paddle billing portal where you can cancel at any time. Your access continues until the end of the billing period. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period. Your episodes then remain accessible for 90 days (KATARUU) or 24 months (Studio) — see our retention terms.

Check your spam or junk folder first. If it is not there, return to KATARUU and request a new link — links expire after 60 minutes. Make sure you are checking the same email address you entered.