Building Heritage Keeper: A Gemini Live Agent for Family Story Preservatio

How I used the Gemini Live API with native audio, function calling, and Google Search grounding to build an AI agent that turns family conversations into illustrated timelines. This article was created for the purposes of entering the Gemini Live Agent Challenge hackathon. #GeminiLiveAgentChallenge The Problem My grandmother came to London from Jamaica in the 1950s. She had stories about Brixton in the Windrush era, about what things cost, about neighbours and churches and dance halls. Most of those stories were never written down. This is true for nearly every family. The stories exist in the memories of older generations - rich, vivid, emotional - but they're never preserved. Traditional approaches (family tree software, memoir-writing tools) feel like work. They require forms, dates, and data entry. Nobody wants to do that. What if preserving family history was as easy as having a conversation? The Solution: Heritage Keeper Heritage Keeper is a voice-first AI agent built on the Gemi