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Install the helper
Download Frasiey onto the Mac or PC that already lives in the room. It sits in the menu bar or the tray, starts with the machine, and shows nothing on the projector.
On-device transcriptionLive translationNo cloud audio
Every word in the room, on every screen.
Frasiey turns the laptop that is already in your meeting room into a live captioner. The microphone is transcribed on that machine — only text ever leaves the building — and everyone reads along on their phone, in their own language.
macOS 12+ and Windows 11 · helper v0.1.0 · no card to start
— so the second thing we measured was how long people actually wait.
And the answer surprised us: the median was under two
Español
Y la respuesta nos sorprendió: la mediana fue de menos de dos
Example — a static illustration, not a live session
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How it works
Three things, once per room.
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Pair it once
The helper prints a six-character code. Type it into your dashboard, choose which room the machine is in, and you are finished configuring it — for good.
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Put the QR on the door
Print the sign for each room. Attendees scan it, pick a reading language, and follow the room live. No app, no account, nothing to install.
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What people see
A screen at the front,
a phone in every hand.
Each room gets two surfaces. The display page is built for a projector or a spare monitor: large type, black ground, no chrome, nothing to click. The reader is built for a phone held at waist height in a dark room — one column, one thumb, and a language picker that remembers what you chose.
Sentences settle as the speaker finishes them. Translations arrive a beat later, per language, and only for the languages somebody is actually reading.
Example — fixed sample text, not a live session
We rebuilt the intake form over a weekend and shipped it on the Monday.
Nobody filed a ticket about it, which is the highest praise a form can get — and that is roughly where we
Deutsch
Niemand hat ein Ticket dazu eröffnet, was das höchste Lob ist, das ein Formular bekommen kann —
The reader: one column, one thumb. The language chip is sticky, so the next room opens in the language you already chose.
Captions in this room
live.frasiey.com/c/spring-summit/kestrel
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What you get
Transcribed where it is spoken
Apple's on-device speech engine on recent Macs, a streaming Zipformer model everywhere else. The audio is processed on the room's own machine and never uploaded — the network only ever carries finished text.
Read in their language
Each attendee picks a reading language and the room is translated into it, sentence by sentence. You are billed per language actually being read, not per language on the menu.
A display for the front of the room
A full-screen page for the projector or a second monitor — big type, high contrast, optional second language underneath. Open it once and leave it open.
Signs you can print
One sheet per room with the QR code and the short link, laid out for A4 or Letter. Print them the morning of, tape them by the door, done.
Transcripts afterwards
Every session is kept and downloadable as plain text, JSON or WebVTT — in the spoken language or in any language it was translated into.
Usage you can check
Hours captioned, language-hours translated and readers over time, per room and per meeting. The bill is computed from exactly the numbers you are looking at.
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Pricing
Pay for the hours you caption.
Readers are free and unlimited. Start on the trial; move to a plan when the meeting gets real.
| Plan | Monthly | Included each month | Captioned hour | Translated language-hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trial | $0 | 3 captioned hours, then captioning stops | — | — |
| Pay as you go | $0 | None — everything is metered | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Starter | $79 | 30 captioned hours + 30 translated language-hours | $1.75 over | $0.90 over |
| Pro | $299 | 150 captioned hours + 150 translated language-hours | $1.50 over | $0.75 over |
| Enterprise | Contact | Custom volume, invoicing and terms | Custom | Custom |
A translated language-hour
One hour of a session translated into one language. An hour translated into Spanish and German counts as two.
Readers are free
However many people read, on however many phones, for however long. Reader minutes appear on your dashboard and never on your bill.
Nothing to sign
Monthly, cancel whenever. Overage is metered hourly and billed through Stripe at the end of the period.
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Download the helper
One small app, on the room's machine.
Free to install and free to run. It does nothing at all until you pair it with an account.
Detected on this computer
macOS
Apple silicon and Intel builds, signed and notarized. On macOS 26 and later Frasiey uses Apple's on-device speech engine; older versions fall back to the bundled model.
Download for Apple siliconIntel Mac? Download the x64 build.
macOS 12 Monterey or later · v0.1.0 · .dmg
Detected on this computer
Windows
A standard installer for 64-bit Windows. Speech runs locally through the bundled streaming model, which downloads itself the first time you start captioning.
Download for WindowsThe Windows build is not yet code-signed; SmartScreen will ask you to confirm.
Windows 11, 64-bit · v0.1.0 · .exe
After it installs
The helper shows a six-character pairing code. Sign in, type the code, assign the machine to a room — that is the whole setup, and you never touch it again.
Create an accountUpdates install themselves · release notes on /download
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Questions
Does the audio go to the cloud?
No. The microphone is opened by the helper app on the room's own laptop and the speech engine runs there. What leaves the machine is the finished text — the same words you can see on the display — plus a heartbeat telling us the room is alive. There is no recording and no upload.
What do attendees need?
A browser. They scan the room's QR code, land on a page, and read. No app, no account, no sign-in. If your meeting needs it you can put an access code in front of the reader.
How good is the transcription?
Good enough to follow a talk, not good enough to be a legal record. It is best with a decent microphone in the room and a speaker who is not walking away from it. You can give each meeting a glossary of names, product terms and acronyms, which measurably helps.
Which languages can people read in?
Translation languages are chosen per meeting from the translation model's set, which covers the major written languages. The spoken language is set per meeting too — the on-device engine transcribes one language at a time, so a bilingual session should be run as two rooms.
What happens if the venue's Wi-Fi drops?
The helper keeps transcribing and writes every finished sentence to a local journal. When the connection comes back it replays what was missed, in order, and the transcript ends up complete. Readers see the gap fill in.
Can captions run only during sessions?
Yes. A room can caption continuously, only when an operator presses start, or on a daily window tied to the meeting's dates and timezone. Off-hours the microphone is closed.
How am I billed?
By the hour captioned and by the language-hour translated, metered through Stripe and invoiced at the end of each monthly period. Reader minutes are free. Plans include a block of both; past the block you pay the overage rate in the table above.
One machine per room — really?
Really. Each room needs the laptop that is already driving its screen, and one Frasiey install on it. A single account can run as many rooms as you have machines, across as many meetings as you like.
Three hours, free, no card.
Enough to caption a morning and see whether the room reads along.