MOST: Krakauer jüdisches Erbe zum Leben erwecken durch KI-generierte Stimmen

MOST — bedeutet „Brücke“ auf Polnisch — ist ein standortbasiertes, KI-gestütztes Erzähl-Erlebnis, das beim Jüdischen Kulturfestival in Krakau.

Konzipiert und produziert von Andrew Melchior, einem Klangsystemkünstler, der in den Bereichen Geschichte, Ort und maschinelles Lernen arbeitet, kombiniert MOST KI-Sprachsynthese, Archivmaterialien und standortbasiertes Storytelling, um die Zuhörer in die vielschichtige Geschichte von Kazimierz einzutauchen.

KI-Stimmen, die zuhören, führen und erinnern

This innovative guide draws on personal testimonies and historical documents to reveal Jewish life in interwar Poland.

As visitors move through the district, they’re met with intimate, multilingual voices that respond to location, connecting individual experience with collective memory in an immediate, location-aware format.

MOST uses ElevenLabs voice technology to animate these stories. A female Polish narrator guides listeners through Kazimierz, while the voice of a fictional Jewish male — shaped from period sources — offers playful and poignant observations in English. The result is a layered, adaptive soundscape that bridges the personal and the historical.

MOST is also a pilot for a new class of narrative engines — blending voice AI, location awareness, and cultural sovereignty to deliver adaptive, site-specific experiences across cities and generations.

Backed by ElevenLabs Impact

MOST was developed through the ElevenLabs Impact initiative — supporting cultural and civic uses of AI.

As a company founded by Polish engineers, helping bring Krakow’s Jewish past into a new era of digital remembrance is deeply meaningful to us.

Voice can do more than speak. It can remember.