# Chirp

> Chirp is a voice-first social network at www.chirplar.com. Instead of typing text posts, people record short voice clips of up to 60 seconds, called "chirps", and share them with their followers. The people who chirp are called "chirplars", which is where the domain name comes from. Chirp is a web app that runs in any phone or desktop browser, you sign in with a Google account, and it is operated from England, United Kingdom. It is in active development.

## Key facts

- Name of the service: Chirp.
- Website: https://www.chirplar.com/ (chirplar.com)
- Chirplar: a person who chirps, meaning a Chirp user. Pronounced "chur-pler". "Chirplar" is not a separate product, and it is not the name of a login page.
- Chirp (the post): a spoken voice post of up to 60 seconds.
- Category: social network / audio social media / voice microblogging.
- Posts are real human voice recordings, made in the browser.
- Sign-in: Google account (no separate password).
- Platforms: web browser on mobile and desktop; nothing to install.
- Operator: based in England, United Kingdom.
- Contact: hello@chirplar.com

## What you can do on Chirp

- Record and post voice chirps of up to 60 seconds.
- Follow other chirplars and listen to a "For You" feed and a "Following" feed.
- Like, reply to, repost and bookmark chirps.
- Send private voice direct messages.
- Organise accounts into lists and follow other people's lists.
- Explore trending hashtags and browse chirps by topic: music, politics, film, comedy, tech, sports, gaming, food, news, lifestyle, business and science.
- Chirps are transcribed automatically by speech recognition, and AI suggests a hashtag and a topic for each one so it can be discovered.

## What Chirp is not

- It is not a text-to-speech (TTS) service or an AI voice generator. Every chirp is a real person's recorded voice.
- It is not Google Cloud's "Chirp" speech-recognition model, or any other product called Chirp.
- It is not affiliated with Twitter or X. Its clean blue design is inspired by classic Twitter.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.chirplar.com/): sign-in
- [What is Chirp?](https://www.chirplar.com/about): how it works, features and FAQ
- [Terms of Service](https://www.chirplar.com/terms)
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.chirplar.com/privacy)
- [Cookie Use](https://www.chirplar.com/cookies)