Pinch

About Pinch

Pinch is a translation and dubbing stack sold as metered infrastructure rather than as a seat-based SaaS. The core claim is voice preservation: it translates video, podcasts and live speech into ten languages while keeping the original speaker's tone and the background audio bed, so a dubbed track still sounds like the person who recorded it instead of a synthetic replacement reading a transcript. It phrases translations the way a native speaker would say them rather than word-for-word, which is the difference between a dub that plays and one that reads like subtitles spoken aloud. There are four surfaces on one wallet: a real-time WebSocket API for live speech translation, a macOS desktop app that translates incoming and outgoing meeting audio at the OS level so no bot ever joins the participant list, browser-based Pinch Rooms where each participant hears their own language, and an async dubbing API with voice cloning for finished media. The billing model is the unusual part — a single prepaid USD balance spends across all four products with no seat counts, plan ladders or overage fees, and the balance does not expire. Every minute is logged with its SKU, duration and cost in the dashboard, so the per-minute economics of a dubbing pipeline are auditable rather than inferred from a monthly invoice.

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