--- title: "The things people ask before they download it · VoiceMe" description: "Microphones, uploads, languages, and what the free version does." url: "https://royalsoftworks.com/products/voiceme/questions/" source: "https://royalsoftworks.com" format: "markdown" note: "Markdown rendering of the HTML page at `url`. Same content, same canonical URL." --- VoiceMe · 5 of 5 # The things people ask before they download it. Microphones, uploads, languages, and what the free version does. 01 Does it listen to my microphone? Not unless you ask it to. VoiceMe captures the sound your computer is playing — the other person on the call, the video, the podcast — and does not open your microphone, so your own side of the conversation and everything else in the room stays out of it. If you want your side transcribed too, switch on Include my microphone in the Audio tab: the microphone is then opened only while VoiceMe is listening. 02 Does any audio leave my computer? No. The recognition runs on your own machine. The only times VoiceMe uses the network at all are the one-off download of the recognition engine (from its GitHub releases) and the speech model when you first set it up, the once-per-launch check for a new version, and, if you buy a licence, activating it and re-checking it when the app starts. There is no account and no telemetry. 03 What do I get for free, and what does paying change? Everything works for free except that the floating subtitle window is timed: it runs for an hour, closes, pauses for five minutes, then gives you a fresh hour. The remaining time is shown in the header the whole time so it never disappears on you mid-sentence. Capturing, transcribing, typing into other apps and saving transcripts are unlimited on both. Paying removes the subtitle timer. 04 Is it a subscription? No. VoiceMe is a one-time purchase of €20, VAT included — one of four products we sell that way, alongside DuplicateDuster, Stream ReRuns and Space Wizard. You pay once, the licence covers one computer, and future updates are included. If you change machines, deactivate the old one on the licence card in your account on this site (Dashboard → Licenses), then activate the new one with the same key. 05 Which languages does it handle? Around 99, at varying accuracy — the big languages are strong, smaller ones less so. You can let it detect the language automatically or pin one, and it can translate what it hears into English as it goes. English-only versions of the model are also offered, and they are faster on a weak computer. 06 Will it run on my computer? Probably. VoiceMe measures your processor and graphics card when you open it and offers only the speech models it thinks that machine can keep up with, each with a predicted speed. A modest laptop gets a small model that still produces readable captions; a machine with a decent graphics card gets the accurate one. 07 Can I put the subtitles on a stream? Yes — that is what the flat-colour background mode is for. Screen-capturing a see-through window usually flattens it to black, so instead VoiceMe can paint a solid green behind the text that OBS, vMix and similar tools remove cleanly, leaving just the words over your scene. 08 Can it type into anything, without me noticing? No, and that is deliberate. Typing into another application is off until you choose a mode and then separately arm it, it disarms itself every time the app restarts, one keyboard shortcut stops it from anywhere, and you can name applications — your password manager, for instance — that it must never type into. [Previous Free and Pro](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/voiceme/editions/) [Back to VoiceMe overview](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/voiceme/)