Fact · Transcription
0.36US dollars per hour of audio
Tingdong sells 5000 credits for $29.99 in one payment, valid 180 days, and subtitles use 1 credit per minute, so the pack works out to about $0.36 per hour of live subtitles.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 23, 2026
In the source's own words
“Buy 5000 credits once, valid 180 days. ... valid 180 days $29.99”
Tingdong: Live Captions & Real-Time Translation for Mac & Windows, Tingdong, Tingdong, 2026, Home page, pricing section, credit packs card.
Open the original- What it measures
- The credit pack needs no subscription and is bought directly. It works in the Mac website version and the Windows app, one computer at a time, for subtitles and Read aloud. Call Translation on the Mac also uses it.
- What it does not show
- The subtitle price includes translation into the subtitle language, so it is not a price for speech recognition alone. Read aloud costs 8 credits a minute and is left out. Credits expire after 180 days. The per-hour figure is converted: $29.99 divided by 5000 minutes is $0.005998 per minute, times 60 is $0.3599 per hour.
In the data
A row of Speech-to-Text API Pricing: Cost per Hour of Audio, as Tingdong 5000-credit pack: 0.36 US dollars per hour of audio.
- Provider
- Tingdong
- Product
- Live subtitles and translation (Mac and Windows)
- Mode
- Streaming (real time)
- Tier
- Credit pack, 5000 credits, valid 180 days, one payment
- As of
- 2026-10
- Note
- $29.99 for 5000 credits at 1 credit per minute is $0.005998 per minute; times 60 is $0.3599 per hour, shown as 0.36
Source
Used to calculate
- In the speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset, the 41 published figures for “Streaming (real time)” have a median of 0.36 US dollars per hour of audio, ranging from 0 to 2.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset holds 132 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The speech-to-text and transcription prices dataset draws on 48 distinct sources.