MeetVoice 2.0: Subscription Plans with Speech Recognition Included

MeetVoice 2.0 removes the step that stopped most people before they ever heard a translated sentence: creating a Deepgram account, generating an API key, topping up a balance, and pasting that key into the extension. Speech recognition is now included with every MeetVoice plan. You install the desktop app, install the extension, pick your languages, and start translating in Google Meet.

Along with this shift, we’re replacing the one-time license with subscription plans. This post explains what’s changed, what each plan includes, and — if you already own a license — why you don’t need to do anything.

Speech recognition is now included

MeetVoice used to operate on a “bring your own key” model. That approach had one honest advantage — you paid the speech-recognition vendor directly. But it had a much larger drawback: before the product could do anything useful, you had to sign up for a third-party account, add a payment method, and go through the copy-paste ritual of integrating an API key.

In 2.0, audio from your microphone flows through the MeetVoice desktop app, through the MeetVoice speech recognition relay, to Deepgram — on an account that we pay for. The relay is pure pass-through: it authenticates your license, forwards your audio stream, returns the transcript, and counts the seconds of speech recognition against your plan. Audio is never stored — it passes through the relay in transit and is gone. Translation and voiceover work exactly as before: text flows through our stateless translation proxy, and the built-in neural voice speaks the result.

In practical terms, this means first-run setup is now just two installations instead of two installations plus an account on someone else’s platform.

The plans

Speech recognition time is measured in actual wall-clock minutes of live translation — that’s the unit of billing across all tiers:

Plan	Monthly	Yearly	Speech recognition
Starter	€9/month	€86/year	5 hours per month
Pro	€29/month	€278/year	20 hours per month
Business	€79/month	€854/year	80 hours per month

A few details worth knowing:

• The quota resets every calendar month. Your counter resets to zero at the start of each calendar month (UTC), regardless of when you subscribed.
• Devices are not the limit. There’s no per-device activation cap on subscription — install MeetVoice on your laptop, desktop, and any machine you travel with. What bounds your usage is the monthly speech-recognition quota, not the number of devices.
• Core features are included at every tier. Subtitles in both directions, voiceover with the built-in neural voice, all 18 languages, live meeting transcript with PDF, SRT, and TXT export — all available starting with Starter. Pro and Business add AI meeting summary in both languages of the call, plus priority support.
• Yearly billing is cheaper. The yearly price on each plan represents twelve months of billing at a discount.

Before you pay anything, there’s a free 30-minute trial: 30 minutes of speech recognition in total, no credit card required, no license key. That’s enough for a couple of real calls — and honestly, there’s no better way to judge whether live translation will actually work in your meetings.

Plans and checkout are live on the pricing section of the home page.

What happens to the €15/year license

You don’t need to do anything.

Existing €15/year licenses are grandfathered into the Pro tier. Your key keeps working; the relay recognizes it and grants you Pro’s 20 hours of speech recognition per month. You don’t need to buy a subscription, re-enter your key, migrate your account, or contact support to make the transition. Just update your desktop app and extension to 2.0, and speech recognition starts working without a Deepgram key.

If you already added your own Deepgram key, it keeps working too — see the next section.

We think this is the right call. People who bought early paid for a product that required significantly more friction than it does today. It’s only fair that they land on the plan that covers real meeting usage, not the starter tier.

You can still bring your own Deepgram key

The relay is the default, not a requirement. In the extension settings, you can add your own Deepgram API key, and your audio will go directly from your machine to Deepgram, bypassing the MeetVoice relay entirely.

Two reasons to choose that path:

• Privacy requirements. Some organizations need a direct contractual relationship with the speech-recognition vendor and no intermediary in the audio path. Your own key gives you exactly that.
• Volume. With your own key, Deepgram bills you for actual usage, and your plan’s monthly speech-recognition quota no longer applies.

For everyone else, the relay is the simpler option — and it’s what your subscription pays for.

Getting started

If you’re new to MeetVoice: download the desktop app from the download page, add the Chrome extension, and on first launch, choose “Try Free — 30 min” to start the free 30-minute trial. The whole setup takes about two minutes — our quick start guide walks you through every step, including the language pair selection where most first-time users stumble.

If you already use MeetVoice: update your desktop app and extension. The relay activates automatically, and your existing license transitions to the new tier without any action on your part.

Have questions about your license, an invoice, or which plan fits your meeting volume? Write to [email protected] — we’ll answer.