Plans and pricing

The free plan has a limited total transcription time that is not renewed; when it runs out, your transcripts stay readable and exportable.

No. The owner of a team plan opens the team and adds people; members use the plan's rights with their own accounts.

For now, by bank transfer: Place the order, pay into the account shown and send a payment notice. Your plan opens once the payment is confirmed.

This is what sets LiveType apart: while people speak, each final sentence goes straight into the editor, and you can correct it while transcription goes on. You do not wait for the transcript to finish, and your corrections do not get mixed up with the new text coming in. It is on every plan and is different from editing together with a team: it works when you are alone too.

You can transcribe in 99 languages, and you choose the spoken language for each transcript. We measured and tuned the models and text rules for Turkish and English; in other languages accuracy can vary with the language and the recording.

With cloud transcription a cloud provider turns the audio into text instead of your device, so no model is downloaded, and it works on every plan. You add an API key from an OpenAI-compatible provider such as Groq or OpenAI to your account: the key is kept encrypted on our server, audio pieces go straight from your browser to the provider, and you pay the provider yourself. Without a key you can buy a cloud transcription credit package, and the time you use is taken off your credit. Owners of team accounts can share their keys and credit with their teams.

With speaker diarization on, LiveType compares voices to tell who is speaking and starts a new paragraph when the speaker changes. It is on every plan and can be turned on or off for each transcript. You can name speakers and merge a speaker that was split in two; names are saved with the transcript. Voice prints count as biometric data, so they are never sent to our server: they stay encrypted on your device and are deleted after 60 days without use. Overlapping speech and very short sentences can be attributed wrongly.

By default transcription runs in your browser, on your own device: the audio is not sent to our server and is not stored anywhere; our server holds only text and account details. Audio leaves your device only in two cases you choose yourself. With cloud transcription, audio pieces go to the provider you picked; with a credit package they pass through our server to the provider without being stored. When transcribing on a teammate's device or your other device, the audio goes directly to that device over an encrypted connection, without touching our server.

On every plan you can download the text in four kinds of format: office documents (DOCX, ODT), plain text (TXT), Markdown (MD) and subtitles (SRT, VTT). Speaker names are added where the speaker changes, and subtitles come with their times. Even when your free time runs out, your transcripts stay readable and exportable for as long as they are kept.

The owner of a team plan opens a team of 5 or 20 people, and a transcript's owner shares it with the team. Everyone in the team can then edit the shared transcript at the same time: changes reach everyone at once, you see each other's carets with names, and text not yet final shows while transcribing. Members use the plan's rights with their own accounts, free accounts included. If something goes wrong, you can return to an earlier state from the version history.