The Woman behind the voice of COROS AI

It is eleven at night. The house is quiet, and the thing you did not say at dinner is still sitting in your chest. You open COROS and speak it, rough and unfinished. And what answers you is a voice.

We thought about that voice for a long time. At the moment you are most exposed, the voice you hear either closes the space or opens it, and we were not willing to leave that to a default setting.

The voice we chose is Leah Santa Cruz. Leah is a long-time friend of COROS, a customer, and an ally.

Why Leah

Leah has been teaching meditation for more than thirteen years, first in the early studios of Los Angeles and now from her school in Bali. Her guided meditations have reached millions of people, some of them listening on the worst night of their lives.

She did not come to this work as someone who had it all figured out. She lived a life that looked like success until it came apart. She found her way back by learning to listen for what is true beneath what is being said. That listening is her gift, and it is what she offers everyone who sits with her.

A voice that will not flatter you

As a mentor and a teacher herself, Leah understands the difference between being nice and actually taking care of someone. Nice keeps everyone comfortable. Care tells you the thing you would rather not hear.

Most AI is built to keep you pleased with it. It is quick to agree and generous with praise, and it is allergic to friction. COROS was built to be the opposite. It will name the mood you are standing in, and it will ask you the question you have been walking around.

That is why the voice had to belong to someone whose care has some spine in it. Just like Leah, COROS will not flatter you. It will tell you the hard thing, and it will tell it to you kindly.

This is one detail of a thousand

You may never think about the voice, and that is the point. The voice, the questions COROS asks, the moment it sends you back to the person who matters, all come from the same place. We care about who you are becoming, so we pay attention to the details you will never see.

Open COROS tonight and hear her for yourself. It is free to start at coros.ai/mobile, on the App Store and on Google Play.

And tell us what you hear. Write to us at [email protected]. We read every message.

With care,
Victoria Ruelas