LiveTranslate: Real-Time Subtitles for Twitch, YouTube & VTubers

😤 You know the feeling. Your favourite streamer is live in Japanese, chat is already laughing, and you don't speak a word of it. So you go looking for live translation, install the first thing you find — and it's late. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. 🎧 LiveTranslate — Friskription fixes that! No caption track needed. No uploads. No second app. No waiting. No configuring API Keys. Press start and enjoy. ▶️ ⚡ THE TRANSLATION IS THE EASY PART. 🧠 ANY AI APP CAN TRANSLATE. ⚡ THE HARD PART IS KNOWING WHEN. Pointing a translator at live audio is the easy part. The reason most live subtitles come out as a word salad is that they translate fragments — "so what I want to" is three words short of meaning anything, and no translator can rescue it. We got out of that trade by fixing what goes in. Speech is cut where the speaker actually pauses — not on a timer — a complete thought arrives at the translator the moment it's complete. Nothing to wait for, nothing to guess at. FAST is EASY. FAST and RIGHT is the part that took the engineering. 🎯 📺 LIVE SUBTITLES AND REAL-TIME TRANSLATION FOR 🎀 VTuber streams, clips and karaoke — Japanese to English and back again 🟣 Twitch live broadcasts, where there are no captions to translate 🔴 YouTube videos, premieres and live streams 📰 News, sports, interviews, lectures, conference talks and podcasts 🌐 Basically any site that plays sound in a tab If it makes noise in your browser, it can have subtitles. 🎬 AND YOUR OWN FILES, TOO — THE MEDIA STUDIO Got a downloaded lecture, a podcast episode, an interview, a home video? Drag it in — video or audio, both work — and take your pick: ▶️ Watch it with live subtitles as it plays 📝 Turn it into a subtitle file — the whole thing, or just the part you care about — and download it as SRT or VTT 📂 Already have an SRT or VTT? Load it beside your video and just watch. Free, no setup, no sign-in. 📖 Read along beside the picture. Every line is listed next to the video, the current one follows the speech, and clicking any line jumps straight to that moment. 🧪 Not sure about a long file? Make a two-minute sample first and see the result before committing to the whole thing. 🔇 Silence is never billed. Quiet stretches don't count against your minutes, and the finished report tells you how many minutes that saved. ⏱️ Subtitles running early or late? Nudge them into place with a slider. 💻 Your file never leaves your computer — only short pieces of audio go out to be transcribed. Finished subtitles wait under "Recent subtitle files" for 7 days, ready to download or re-watch. 🌍 47 LANGUAGES — AND THE APP ITSELF SPEAKS 15 Translate speech into English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Dutch, Swedish, Ukrainian, Hebrew — 47 in all, from whatever language is being spoken. The extension's own menus and help text are translated too, into fifteen of them — so it is not just the subtitles that speak your language. ✨ ⭐ Pin your favourites and flip between them with a keyboard shortcut, without missing a beat of the stream. ⚡ TWO WAYS TO RUN IT 🚀 Instant — sign in with Google and go. No API keys, no provider accounts, nothing to configure. 30 free minutes every week, refilled every Monday. Want more? Pick a monthly plan — minutes arrive every month, first month half price, cancel anytime — or top up with one-time minute packs that never expire. 🔑 Your own API keys — bring an OpenAI, Anthropic or ElevenLabs key and run the whole thing on your own account. Nothing routes through our servers, and there's nothing extra to pay us. Choose during the guided setup, and switch any time you like. 🔄 ⏱️ SUBTITLES THAT KEEP UP WITH THE STREAM This is the part other subtitle translators get wrong. Pick how the timing feels: 🎯 Live Sync & Balanced Sync — subtitles land as the words are spoken. About as close to real time as subtitles get. 🎚️ Quick, Balanced, Precise — leave playback completely untouched and tune how long we wait for a sentence to finish. 🛠️ BUILT FOR ACTUALLY WATCHING THINGS 📖 Glossary / name lock — character names, show titles and in-jokes translated the way they're *supposed* to be, every single time 🗣️ Speaker labels — tell people apart in multi-person audio 🎨 An overlay you control — font size, colours, opacity, position, how many lines stay on screen 💾 Transcript history — export what you watched as TXT, SRT or VTT ⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts — start/stop, pause, hide the overlay, clear lines, cycle languages 🌐 Per-site presets — different timing and languages per website 🎉 NEW IN 3.2 — CALLS IN THE ZOOM AND TEAMS APPS 🖥️ Computer audio. A call in the Zoom or Teams desktop app never passes through a browser tab, so until now there was nothing to caption. Pick "Computer audio" on the stream page and the computer's own sound is captioned — with your microphone too if you like, every line labelled You or Them. Only the sound is used; the picture of your screen is never kept. Works on Windows and ChromeOS; on Mac and Linux it depends on your version of Chrome. 🎉 NEW IN 3.0 — YOUR OWN VOICE, CAPTIONED 🎙️ Caption yourself. Pick "My voice" and speak: your words appear as subtitles — in your own language, or translated into another — for a stream, an online meeting, or a conversation with someone who doesn't speak yours. Set it up once, step by step, on the new stream page. The captions run there too. 🎥 Built for OBS. A caption window on chroma green for Window Capture, or your own live page as a Browser Source with a transparent background. Set the scene before you go live. 🔗 A live page for anyone (Premium). Paste your link into a meeting chat and it opens in any browser — phones included — with nothing to install. Everyone reads the captions as they happen, and each person can switch the page to their own language. You choose which languages are on offer, and the stream page tells you what an hour costs before anyone…