RAJU PITCH — VERSION 7 — MINUTE-BY-MINUTE TRANSCRIPT
Duration: 06:08.3
Status: Includes the English translation of the Bangla demonstration from the supplied ElevenLabs transcript.

Derived from local automatic transcription of the final export, cross-checked against source transcripts. Names and obvious recognition errors have been corrected using the established source context. Grammar and natural self-corrections are retained. Minute divisions are approximate at word level. This is not yet a fully listening-verified verbatim transcript.

00:00–00:59 — MAMUN
Hi, I'm Mamun. I'm a GP trainee from North Liverpool, and today I'm gonna tell you the story behind what I've built in the last eight months. It all started with my Nani, who's an 87-year-old, lived an amazingly rich life. When I used to visit London, I remember listening to her stories for hours and hours about her childhood, about grandparents and how the people in those times lived.

But sadly, due to her dementia for the last few years, even these stories are disappearing slowly. So because of this, I wanted her to have an AI companion which can not only support her while she's living at home, but be an autobiographer for her, so that her stories can remain preserved for the next generations.

01:00–01:59 — MAMUN
When I thought of this idea it was March, and initially I thought, let me just get an AI companion—companion for her. So I searched online, and all the ones I found were: one, they were all English; two, they all have subscriptions; and three, they were all restricting you to certain activities, and I couldn't accept that.

So when I started doing this, I did not know how to code, and I did not know how to use Linux. I used to copy code from the AI, paste it into Linux. Linux used to generate a wall of red code lines. I used to copy that error message, put it back into AI, and I used to say, “Fix that.” It was a slow progress, but I finally managed to build an AI…

02:00–02:59 — MAMUN AND RAJU
MAMUN: …which I could converse with. And I'd like to show you a conversation with Raju.

[02:07.3–02:58.1: Raju demonstration.]
MAMUN, in English: Hi, Raju. Can you tell me the news of what's happening in UK?

RAJU, translated from Bangla: Go ahead, Nani.

RAJU, translated from Bangla: In the UK, ahead of a new law, the government wants companies to list salaries in job adverts. They say this will reduce pay inequality. Would you like to hear anything else, Nani?

MAMUN, translated from Bangla: Now play me a beautiful song.

RAJU, translated from Bangla: Okay, okay, Nani. I'm playing a song.

[Instrumental music plays from the device.]

MAMUN, translated from Bangla: Raju, stop the song.

RAJU, translated from Bangla: Okay, Nani. I've stopped it. Weren't you enjoying the song?

MAMUN, returning to the presentation: So while I was…

03:00–03:59 — MAMUN
…working with Raju, Nani suffered a huge stroke, and both her paranoia and dementia became much worse. One day her phone charger stopped working, and she remained without a phone for two weeks.

This event made me think I couldn't go immediately to my Nani whenever she needed help. On the other hand, she couldn't fix these problems herself. So I decided to experiment with a tablet to see if I could control it remotely, as I'm living in Liverpool and she's living in London.

I could press a button on my laptop and I could operate that tablet. Let me show you how.

[Tablet demonstration begins around 03:41.4.]

04:00–04:59 — MAMUN
[Tablet demonstration continues until approximately 04:19.9. No reliable speech was recognised in the 04:00–04:19.9 portion; device sounds and any quiet utterances still require listening verification.]

So two weeks ago I went to London with Raju and tablet in my backpack. But when I got there, I realised Nani's dementia and paranoia had gone too far, to a point where she could not accept any new technology. Raju came too late for her, at least for now.

So my vision is to create Raju as a modular unit. So Raju, this would be Raju's brain. This could be Raju's ears and mouth. But if you wanted to, you could add a camera to Raju to give him eyes to see.

05:00–05:59 — MAMUN
Or you could even add a tablet, in case every other communication fails, you'd still have a communi—way to communicate with your loved ones.

My vision is to make a low-cost modular AI companionship platform where families can change the devices, the modes of communication, according to their needs, because dementia is not a static disease. People with dementia change, and I believe technology should change with the people. Technology should adapt to the person and not having a demented person adapt to technology.

But at the end of the day, this technology, this platform needs more development and more evaluation, but I think it is a worthwhile endeavour. Even though this technology…

06:00–06:08.3 — MAMUN
…didn't help my Nani, I believe one day it could help someone else's Nani.


Translation source: ElevenLabs Bangla JSON supplied by Mamun. Speaker labels mapped from its diarization. Original audio, timing and approved Version 7 are unchanged. Bangla translation has been checked against the supplied text, but has not been independently verified by listening.