Valoquent: Craft Conversation

Rebranded in V2.0 as Valoquent: Craft Conversation A live feedback loop for the way you think out loud. Real conversations with figures from history, scored as you talk on clarity, depth, follow-through, and presence. The conversation is the lesson. The meter is how you see it. The Conversation Meter A live meter on screen scores your conversation as you speak. 22 behavioral signals per utterance: depth, follow-up, reciprocity, on-topic coherence, constructive challenge, troll detection, flow streak, vocabulary, balance, and twelve more. Sub-millisecond updates, on the same screen as the avatar. Three zones, five states: Surface, Exploring, Engaged, Deep Dive, Flow State. Asymmetric momentum smoothing means bad turns hurt faster than good turns help. Built on Ghazarian et al. (AAAI 2020), validated at 0.85 correlation with human judgment. Three-tier Memory Architecture Session-start injection of prior context. Post-session processing that turns transcripts into structured memory. Archival storage. Each character now remembers what you talked about and brings up unfinished threads. Returning users start at tier-appropriate scores between 55 and 65, never a cold reset. Two-axis Disclosure Aystem Each character has 16 distinct relationship states. Global trust tier (guarded, warming, open, vulnerable) intersects per-topic depth (surface, candid, deep, raw). Three-layer gating: turn count, signal strength, and meter score must all align before a tier advances. Built on Aron's 1997 closeness research and Altman and Taylor 1973. Topic depth persists across sessions. The Tapestry A constellation map of every topic you've explored with each figure. The deeper you go, the more the Tapestry reveals. Mind Levels and Arc Score Mind Levels move with your average score across all conversations: Novice, Curious, Thinker, Scholar, Intellectual, Sage. Arc Score is the per-session number, calculated from four factors: Conversational Arc, Depth of Exchange, Engagement Quality, Vocabulary Richness. Relationship depth advances per figure: Acquaintance, Familiar, Conversant. Seven-level Flow Economy XP progression Curious to Luminary. Built on Self-Determination Theory (Deci and Ryan): autonomy, competence, relatedness. Progression rewards depth, not session count. The Conversation Guide A new in-app explainer for everything the meter measures and how progress advances. Five zones with their ranges and accolades. Four Arc Score factors. Six Mind Levels. Three relationship-depth stages. Nothing about the scoring system is hidden. Learning Reports Every session becomes a personalized learning report you can read back, share, or build on. Custom Intelligence Layer Per Character Hand-built character by character, refined across hundreds of calibration runs. Aurelius does not sound like Curie. 150+ vocabulary terms per character. Each character is anchored in their own primary sources: Einstein from his 1905 special relativity paper and the Einstein-Szilard letter. Curie from her radium memoir and her published papers. Aurelius from his Meditations. Equivalent source depth for Da Vinci, Douglass, and Cleopatra. The knowledge base is curated, not generated. Music Grounded in Learning-environment Research Home-screen ambient regulates arousal between sessions, sequenced across multiple tracks to prevent habituation. Post-session chimes timed to the zone reveal. Calibration Discipline Scoring system, personalities and economy were calibrated against a 48-scenario battery across three training tiers: local pipeline, production harness, full production. Nothing Here is Imporvised Grounded in 30+ peer-reviewed studies in conversation, learning, and honest design. Every part of the app, from the meter to the memory to the music, is anchored in published research, developed in public.