Reflect
Letting the user choose
Reflect’s guided reflection gives people room to name their own feelings.
In August 2026, Reflect built the first version of its React Native mobile-app demo using Oruk’s public speech API. The app starts with a familiar prompt: talk through whatever is on your mind.
Oruk’s emotion tagging then surfaces options for the user to consider. The user can open a definition, think about whether it fits, and select how they’re actually feeling. The screen also offers “Something else.” The person makes the choice.
“we didn't want to make direct assumptions about the user's emotional state”
That step grew out of an integration question: how should an app use a voice model’s output without assuming it knows someone’s emotional state? Reflect put the suggestions in front of the user and gave them the chance to read, consider and choose.
The selected feeling gives the app more context for its next question. In this flow, Oruk supplies possible starting points for reflection, and the user’s own description shapes what comes next. That distinction became a concrete part of the interface: voice input, suggested feelings, definitions, and a choice before continuing.