--- title: "How Many Languages Does a Free Real-Time Translator Actually Speak (Not Just Translate)?" description: "Voxis translates 79 languages on every plan. The free tier speaks 35 of them out loud — the rest arrive as live captions until you upgrade." url: https://voxislive.com/blog/free-tier-voice-coverage-vs-translation language: "en" source_html: https://voxislive.com/blog/free-tier-voice-coverage-vs-translation site: "Voxis — real-time voice translation" og_image: https://voxislive.com/assets/og.png generated_by: voxislive-markdown-pipeline --- [Home](https://voxislive.com/) · / · [Blog](https://voxislive.com/blog) · / · How Many Languages Does a Free Real-Time Translator Actually Speak (Not Just Translate)? PRICING # How Many Languages Does a Free Real-Time Translator Actually Speak (Not Just Translate)? Voxis translates 79 languages on every plan. The free tier speaks 35 of them out loud — the rest arrive as live captions until you upgrade. Davut Akça, Founder, VoxisLive · August 14, 2026 · 3 min read Voxis translates all 79 supported languages on every plan, including the free one — that number never changes based on what you're paying. What does change by plan is how many of those languages it can **speak out loud**: the free tier voices 35 of the 79, and the rest arrive as live captions until you're on a paid plan, which speaks all 79. ## Why "language support" usually means two different things Most real-time translation software advertises a single language count, which quietly collapses two separate jobs into one number. The first job is turning speech into translated text — recognizing what was said and rendering it in the target language. The second job is turning that translated text into audio a listener can actually hear. Every one of Voxis's 79 target languages gets the first job done the same way regardless of plan. It's the second job — synthesized speech — where a free tier and a paid plan genuinely differ, because they use different engines to produce the voice. If a translator's marketing only ever quotes one number, it's worth asking which of the two jobs that number describes. A tool that "supports 100 languages" for translation may speak only a handful of them; the two figures aren't required to match, and often don't. ## How the free tier actually produces spoken audio The free tier runs a lighter pipeline: a text-only translation model handles the language conversion, and a separate, local, on-device neural voice reads the result aloud. That local voice technology currently has trained voices for 35 of the 79 languages — a number that grows as more voices get added, but isn't 79 yet. Paid plans route instead to two full cloud voice engines that, between them, cover all 79 languages natively. This isn't a corner that was cut carelessly — running a full cloud voice engine for every free session would cost more than the free tier is designed to cost. The local-voice approach is what makes a genuinely free, no-subscription daily allowance possible at all. ## What happens if your language isn't voiced yet Nothing breaks. If you pick one of the 44 languages without a free-tier voice, translation keeps working exactly as normal — you just see it as live captions instead of hearing it spoken. The app shows this upfront in the language picker before you start a session, so it's never a surprise mid-conversation. A paid plan removes the distinction entirely: every one of the 79 languages is spoken. | | Translated (text) | Spoken (voice) | | --- | --- | --- | | Free tier | 79 languages | 35 languages | | Any paid plan | 79 languages | 79 languages | ## FAQ **Does the free tier translate fewer languages than a paid plan?** No. Translation coverage is 79 languages on every plan — free and paid alike. Only the number of languages it can speak out loud differs. **Which specific languages can the free tier speak?** See the [full language table](https://voxislive.com/languages) for the current list — it's the same page that shows all 79 translation targets, marked for which ones are voiced on the free tier. **Will picking an unvoiced language cause an error?** No. Translation continues normally as live captions; nothing fails, and the app tells you which mode you're getting before you start. **Davut Akça**, Founder, VoxisLive. [More about VoxisLive](https://voxislive.com/about). ## Keep reading [Pricing · Prepaid minute packs, the free daily allowance, and what a minute actually meters.](https://voxislive.com/pricing) · [Languages · The full table of all 79 languages and which ones speak on the free tier.](https://voxislive.com/languages) · [Translating Discord Voice Chat in Real Time: How the Audio Routing Actually Works · The plain routing mechanism behind Discord voice translation, in vs out, plus the listen-only fallback when a virtual microphone isn't installed.](https://voxislive.com/blog/discord-voice-chat-translation-routing) · [How to Translate a Twitch or YouTube Live Stream Into Spoken Audio While You Watch · Chat-translation tools and audio-translation tools solve different problems that share a search query. Setup for a live stream, and what fast-talking streamers do to the timing.](https://voxislive.com/blog/translate-twitch-youtube-live-stream-audio) Free to start · 10 free minutes every day ## Hear every language, in real time. Runs on Windows 10 and 11, Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 15 or later) and Linux — driverless capture, no setup ritual, no bot in your call. 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