Providers

Where the translation actually happens

Sokuji does not do the recognition or the translation itself — it captures your voice, sends it somewhere, and speaks the answer back into your call. You choose where that somewhere is. There are three routes, and you are never stuck on one.

Three routes

On your own machine

Download an inference engine matched to your GPU and run recognition and translation locally. Free, works with the network off, and nothing leaves the device — not even to us.

free · no account · offline

Your own API key

Sign up with any provider below, paste the key into Sokuji, and pay that provider directly. We wrote a walkthrough with screenshots for each one. Nothing routes through us at all.

you hold the key · you get the bill

Through a Kizuna AI account

For people who would rather not deal with developer consoles. We hold the key and settle the bill; OpenAI, Doubao or Soniox still runs the model. Your audio goes straight to them — we are not in the path.

metered · no subscription

Supported providers

Sokuji ships adapters for these. “Speaks” means it can produce spoken translation rather than text only — which is what the flagship scenario needs. Where a Kizuna AI account is offered, the vendor actually running the model is named, because that is who receives your audio.

ProviderHow it runsSpeaksSetup
Local inferenceOn your machine, engine downloaded to match your GPUyesGuide
Local nativeOn your machine, native runtimeyesGuide
OpenAI RealtimeYour key, direct to OpenAIyesGuide
OpenAI TranslateYour key, or a Kizuna AI account — vendor: OpenAIyesGuide
OpenAI-compatible endpointAny server speaking the OpenAI API — your own includeddependsGuide
Google GeminiYour key, direct to GoogleyesGuide
SonioxYour key, or a Kizuna AI account — vendor: SonioxyesGuide
Palabra AIYour key, WebRTC transportyesGuide
Volcengine AST2Your key, or a Kizuna AI account — vendor: DoubaoyesGuide
Volcengine STYour keytext onlyGuide
Zoom AI ServicesYour API key and secret from the Zoom Build Platformtext onlyGuide

What the account costs

Only this route costs anything. Sokuji itself is free and open source, and on-device inference is free with it.

metered, never monthly

You top up a balance and it is drawn down as you use it. A month you do not use costs you nothing, and there is no seat count.

There is no single price to quote here, because each vendor meters differently — some by audio duration, some by what the model processes. The rate that applies is the one shown against that vendor in your account, before you spend anything.

still not in the path

Paying us does not put us between you and the model. We hand your device a credential and count what it spends; the audio goes device to vendor exactly as it does with your own key. See how that is wired →

Balance is valid for one year. That bound exists because unspent credit sits on our books as a liability, not to push anyone into spending it.

Speak your own language.
Be heard in theirs.

free and open source · on-device ai included · no subscription