LICENSING

We publish proof, not promises.

Our GitHub repository is a read-only excerpt of the real code, so you — or your security team — can verify exactly how your audio is captured, translated, and stored, instead of taking our word for it. Voxis Live itself is a commercial product with no free or self-built version; the repository is for verification, not for building your own copy.

How to get Voxis Live

There are two ways to use Voxis Live today, and both are paid:

  • The official app — Microsoft Store or voxislive.com, running on a subscription or a prepaid minute pack. See Pricing.
  • The Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) unlock — a one-time paid purchase that lets you use your own Google Gemini or Alibaba Qwen API key instead of ours, in place of a subscription. One purchase covers both the official Windows app and the Chrome extension; it is a feature of those products, not a separate download.

There is no free tier that requires you to build anything yourself, and no version of Voxis Live obtainable by cloning a GitHub repository.

The GitHub repository

github.com/VoxisLive/voxislive publishes a small, explicitly-curated excerpt of the audio-handling code — capture, on-device speech detection, the translation network hop, playback, local transcript storage — so you (or your security/compliance team) can verify our privacy claims yourself instead of taking our word for it. It deliberately omits the files needed to build or run the application: no UI, no orchestration layer, no account or billing code.

The repository is published under an all-rights-reserved notice, not an open-source license. Reading it, and quoting brief excerpts for commentary or security research, are the only things it permits. It does not grant any right to use, copy, modify, distribute, or build on the code — for personal use, commercial use, or anything in between. The repository's own LICENSE file is the exact, governing text.

If you've seen an older version of this page, a stale fork, or a third party describing the engine as "open source" or free to run with your own key: that described an earlier phase of the project, discontinued in August 2026. Anyone who already built a copy before then may keep using it, subject to our Terms of Service; nobody can build a new one from the current repository.

Commercial & enterprise inquiries

For teams, Voxis Live offers pooled-minute organization plans — contact us to set one up. For anything else involving this codebase — integrations, partnerships, or a use case the official app and org plans don't cover — contact us before you build anything. We review requests case by case; nothing on this page is a standing offer to license the source.

Reporting a fake or misleading copy

Copies of the old, buildable version of this project — and copies of this repository itself — have circulated outside our official channels, sometimes bundled with unrelated installers. We never distribute the app that way. If you find one, please report it: [email protected].

FAQ

Common questions

01Is Voxis Live open source?
No — but the reason our code is on GitHub at all is so you can verify our privacy claims yourself, instead of taking our word for it. The excerpt is real, unedited, and read-only; it is published for transparency, not licensed for reuse, and the application itself is closed-source and commercial.
02Can I download and run Voxis Live for free from GitHub?
No. The current GitHub repository doesn't contain the files needed to build the app, and its license wouldn't permit building or running it even if it did. A free, buildable version existed before August 2026 and has been discontinued — it is no longer distributed anywhere.
03What is the BYOK unlock, and is it free?
It's a paid, one-time purchase that lets you use your own Gemini or Qwen API key instead of ours, in the official Windows app and in the Chrome extension — one purchase unlocks both. It is not free, and it is not a separate app — see Pricing.
04Can I fork the GitHub repository?
You can fork it on GitHub — that's a platform mechanic — but forking doesn't grant any license. The all-rights-reserved notice governs every copy, forked or not, so you still can't use, build, or distribute it.
05I already built a copy of the old open-source/BYOK version before August 2026. Can I keep using it?
Yes — your use remains governed by our Terms of Service, but that build is no longer supported or updated, and no new copies can be built from the current repository.

Keep reading

Voice creditsThe neural voices VoxisLive's free tier speaks with, and the licence each one is used under.TermsThe agreement between you and VoxisLive when you create an account or use the service.AboutVoxisLive delivers live spoken translation of any Windows audio — driverless, 79 languages.