1 Requires a BYOK provider that supports speaker separation. 2 Optional renewal keeps updates available after the first year.
How much time could you get back?
Estimate the monthly impact of replacing repeated typing, cleanup, and formatting work with spoken capture.
Time savings calculator
Based on 20 working days per month and the common 3x speaking speed comparison.
Your monthly impact
Based on your inputs, here is what DirektText could save each month.
Time saved7h
Across 20 working days
Money saved$233
At $35/h
Actual savings depend on your workflow, review time, audio quality, and how you use DirektText.
Pricing questions.
Subscriptions are for people who just want to download the program and get started. You focus on the work that matters to you and DirektText handles the technical details. But for those who care, subscriptions still allow the set up of local models and for you to bring your own API key.
Lifetime licenses are for users who prefer a one-time purchase and can run local models or have their own API keys. They are a poor fit if you just want to download the software and start using it.
Subscriptions include managed cloud transcription, so you can start working without any set up. Lifetime purchases are one-time desktop licenses intended for more technical people who just want local processing or bring their own API keys. They do not include cloud transcription hours.
The subscription plans are split by workload. Starter is for single-speaker dictation and transcription. Professional is the default for daily speech productivity, adding premium minutes for meetings, interviews, and higher-accuracy work. Professional Plus places more emphasis on premium transcription for users with frequent multi-speaker recordings, long calls, or accuracy-sensitive work.
Fast minutes are for everyday single-speaker cloud transcription where low latency matters. Premium minutes are for accuracy-sensitive work and recordings that need speaker separation, such as meetings, interviews, and calls.
Parakeet 0.6B and Whisper Large V3 Turbo Q5.
For smaller local models, plan for roughly 1.5-2 GB of available RAM, and ideally use a modern graphics card for smoother performance. Local models keep processing on your device, but they can make more mistakes than cloud models depending on the language, audio quality, and use case.
No, not for subscriptions. BYOK means bring your own key: you connect DirektText to supported providers using API keys from your own provider accounts. Lifetime licenses can use local models without API keys, but cloud providers and some advanced workflows require BYOK, with provider costs, limits, and account management handled by you.
Yes, but they need a BYOK speech provider that supports speaker separation, plus an LLM provider for the structured output. Subscriptions can use included premium minutes for multi-speaker recordings.
Yes. Multi-speaker modes use premium transcription. The trial includes 30 minutes of premium transcription so you can get an understanding of that functionality, plus 1 hour of fast transcription for everyday dictation and notes.
Try DirektText free for 14 days.
Use DirektText with your own voice. The trial includes 1 hour of fast transcription and 30 minutes of premium transcription for multi-speaker modes, interviews, calls, and recordings where accuracy matters more. No credit card required.
