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 65 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.
65 output languages including Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese. Source language detection works for 65 spoken languages.