Setup guide

Setting up your API key

Typefree connects to AI services using your own API key. Here's the honest state of things for international users.

Heads-up for users outside mainland China.
Typefree's speech recognition currently relies on mainland-China providers (Volcengine / Doubao and Alibaba Cloud Bailian). Their consoles are in Chinese and require mainland-China real-name verification (a Chinese national ID), so these services aren't practically usable without a mainland China account. For that reason, a full English step-by-step guide isn't available yet.
If you can read Chinese, the complete step-by-step guide (with screenshots) is here:
简体中文教程 ↗ 繁體中文教程 ↗
What's next. We plan to support recognition providers that work worldwide (such as OpenAI or Deepgram) so Typefree becomes fully usable internationally. If that's important to you, let us know — it helps us prioritize.
Questions? Email ray@typefree.app and we're happy to help.