StreamTranslateStreamTranslateMarch 26, 2026 | StreamTranslate Team
Whether you are a viewer wanting captions on streams you watch, or a streamer wanting to add captions for your audience — here are all your options in 2026.
If a streamer has enabled CC via OBS, you can turn on captions by clicking the speech bubble icon in the bottom-right of the player and selecting Closed Captions. Most streams do not have this enabled. If a stream has a visible subtitle overlay, no action is needed — subtitles are already on screen.
YouTube generates automatic live captions for most streams. Click the CC button in the player controls to enable them. Quality varies — gaming terms and fast speech sometimes get transcribed incorrectly.
Chrome has a built-in Live Caption feature that transcribes audio from any tab in real time. To enable: Chrome Settings > Accessibility > Live Caption. English only, runs locally on your device.
If you want to give your viewers always-on captions without requiring them to do anything, you need to add captions at the source — meaning in your streaming setup.
StreamTranslate adds a real-time caption overlay via OBS browser source. Every viewer on every platform sees the captions automatically — no CC button, no browser extension, no opt-in required. It also supports live translation into 49 languages so international viewers get subtitles in their language.
Always-on real-time captions. Works on Twitch, YouTube, Kick, and TikTok.
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Sign up at StreamTranslate.live, copy your browser source URL, add it to OBS as a Browser source, and go live. Setup takes under 5 minutes.
Yes. StreamTranslate works with any platform that supports OBS including Twitch, YouTube Live, Kick, TikTok Live, and more.
Translated subtitles appear on your OBS overlay in under 2 seconds end-to-end. Speech-to-text uses advanced AI and translation routes through neural machine translation fallback.
28+ output languages including Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese. Source language detection works for 40+ spoken languages.