We think you shouldn’t pay monthly for a tool you use now and then.

Why we built it

Most speech tools are subscriptions. If you use one every day, that’s fair. But a lot of this work comes in bursts - a run of interviews, a season of a podcast, a voiceover for one video, a meeting with guests who speak another language - and then nothing for weeks. Paying $10–$20 every month for tools you barely touch never sat right with us. So we built the opposite: top up a few dollars, spend what you actually use, and keep the rest for whenever you need it.

It started with transcription. Everything we have added since runs on the same balance, so a voiceover or a live session does not mean one more subscription.

What you can do with it

• Transcribe audio and video - speaker labels, timestamps, subtitles and an AI summary.
• Text to speech in more than 400 voices, and dialogues with a voice for each character.
• Live subtitles for a meeting or a room, translated as you speak.
• Conversation - two people, two languages, one phone between you.
• Live interpreter - a talk, a call or a video translated by voice, a few seconds behind the speaker.
• Caption video - subtitles burned into Reels, TikToks and Shorts.
• Scan handwriting, photos and documents into editable text.

What we believe

• Pay for what you use. No subscription, no monthly reset, credits never expire. One balance pays for every tool.
• Hold as little as possible. Audio is sent for recognition and not kept afterwards unless you choose to keep it; transcripts and voice clips delete themselves after 90 days.
• Work in your language. 99 languages in, translation into 18, and an interface in 15 languages.
• No bot in your calls. Upload a recording, or caption a meeting from your own microphone or a browser tab - nothing joins the call as a participant.
• Say the real number. AI transcription is 90–97% accurate on clean audio. We’d rather tell you that than promise perfection.

How we work with your audio

Speech recognition, voices and translation run on AI models from third-party providers. Your audio or text is sent to the provider to be processed. By default the audio is not kept on our servers afterwards: a copy stays only if you switch that on yourself, and you can delete it at any moment. Transcripts and generated voice clips stay with your account for up to 90 days and are then deleted automatically. Scanned images are never saved, only the text read from them. The full details are in our privacy policy.

Who writes the blog

Posts on the Speecho blog are written by our team from hands-on experience building and using the product - not spun up to chase keywords. If we make a claim about accuracy, pricing or privacy, it matches how the product actually works.