Hi @Copperhead,
When you first start with LR, you are automatically enrolled in a free trial for a period of time to try out all the features.
After that first period ends, you’re subscription moves to a basic membership and things like machine, translations, ability to save items, and ASR subtitles are Pro features.
It’s been a while since I was on the free plan, but using the dual subtitles and the full dictionary is great with videos (on YouTube and Netflix) that have both your target language and your native/most fluent language subtitles available.
The basics of PhrasePump also work (just without the machine translations, I’m guessing).
It’s not a bug. You have to be a Pro member to use ASR as it’s expensive for the devs to use.
I hope some of this clears up some of the confusion.