What counts toward your usage (and what doesn't)

Glossa bills for active spoken translation, measured by the minute and counted separately for each language. Knowing what does and doesn’t count makes your bill easy to predict.

What counts

• Spoken content that Glossa is actively translating, such as the sermon, announcements, and spoken prayers.
• Each language separately. A 1 hour service in three languages uses three language-hours.
• Time while your stream is running and there is speech to translate.

What does not count

• Silence. Quiet stretches don’t add to your usage.
• Songs and worship music. These aren’t billed (and Glossa can’t transcribe sung lyrics anyway, which is a limitation of current AI across the industry).
• The number of listeners. Five people or five hundred, the cost is identical.

The one thing to remember

Stop your stream when the service ends. If a stream keeps running with spoken audio after people have gone, Glossa may still be translating and counting that time. Stopping the stream promptly keeps your usage clean. For a related charge you might see, read Understanding transcriber minutes on your bill.