Ask your employer
Ask your employer to pay for meeting translation
Trippi starts at $6 a month — below almost every approval threshold. Here is the letter, and the answers to the questions your manager will ask.
Free to start · Works in your browser · Your audio stays private
The tool costs less than the meeting it saves.
Most companies have a learning or tooling budget, and a monthly line that starts at $6 rarely needs more than a manager’s reply. The reason people pay out of their own pocket is not the price — it is that nobody wants to write the email, and nobody knows what security will ask. Both are solved below: a letter you can copy, and the honest answers about audio, transcripts and what leaves your machine.
The letter
Copy, adjust the meetings you actually sit in, and send:
Several of my weekly meetings run in English at native speed, and I lose part of what is said — mostly in <standup / customer calls / architecture reviews>. I would like to expense a tool called Trippi: it is a browser extension that puts live translated subtitles over the meeting, so I can follow it in real time and re-read the transcript afterwards.
It costs <price from gettrippi.app/pricing> a month, billed monthly and cancellable any time. Nothing is installed on the company side, no bot joins our calls, and the meeting transcript stays in my browser rather than on their servers.
Could you approve it, or tell me which budget it should go to?
The questions your manager or security will ask
- Does a bot join our meetings? No. Nothing appears in the participant list and nothing is announced — the subtitles are drawn in one person’s browser.
- Is our audio recorded? No. Audio is relayed to Trippi’s own server, turned into captions and dropped. It is not stored and not sold — see the privacy policy.
- Where does the transcript live? In the employee’s browser, on their own machine. Trippi does not receive it and cannot read it. A summary is built only when the person presses the button.
- Do we need IT to install it? Only if your company manages Chrome or Edge centrally and blocks extensions by policy — then an admin allows this one extension, and nothing else changes.
- Is there a receipt? Payment goes through Paddle, which emails a receipt for every charge; that is what goes into the expense report.
What to expect if you ask for a team
There are three team plans, from $49 a month, with 120, 250 and 500 hours in one shared pool for up to 5, 15 and 40 people. The pricing page shows the exact price for your country. Below about five people a stack of personal subscriptions still costs less, and it is usually simpler too: one line per person on an expense report beats a procurement cycle.
If a whole team needs it, all three sizes are bought straight from the pricing page — by card, monthly or yearly, with a receipt for every charge. Write to contact first if your finance team needs a company invoice or a VAT number on it.
Work at a school? For the families who join your parent–teacher meetings there is a separate page, with a note you can send them: parent–teacher meeting translation.
How it works
Add to Chrome
One click from the Chrome Web Store. No account, no install wizard.
Turn it on in your meeting
Open the call in your browser and click the Trippi icon.
Read the translated subtitles
See every sentence in your language, as it's spoken.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost per person?+
From $6 a month for 10 hours, up to 70 hours on the largest personal plan. The pricing page shows the exact price for your country. You can also start for free and test it on real meetings before asking anyone.
Is there a team or company plan?+
Yes — three sizes, all of them one shared pool of hours: 120 hours for up to 5 people, 250 for up to 15 and 500 for up to 40, from $49 a month. For two or three people personal plans are still cheaper. All three are bought on the pricing page.
Will the company see my meeting transcripts?+
Nobody sees them, including us. The transcript is stored in your browser on your machine, and it is exported only if you export it.
Do our meetings have to move to the browser?+
The meeting has to be open in a browser tab — Google Meet, Zoom on the web, Teams on the web. The desktop apps are out of reach for a browser extension.
Can I cancel if the team stops using it?+
Yes, in one click, and the subscription is monthly — there is no annual commitment to explain to anyone.
Read every meeting in your language
Add Trippi to Chrome and turn on translated captions in your next call.