Make your live stream accessible in 2026. StreamTranslate adds AI captions in 125+ languages for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers — the complete live stream accessibility toolkit powered by our industry-leading speech AI.
Make Your Stream AccessibleThe World Health Organization estimates that 466 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss. That is a massive audience that, without captions, is partially or completely excluded from live streaming content. When you stream without captions, you are not just missing out on a potential audience segment — you are actively excluding people who want to engage with your content but cannot access it without text support.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers are active participants in gaming and streaming communities. They follow streamers, participate in Discord communities, and engage with streaming content — but only when that content is captioned. Streamers who add captions consistently report new viewers from the deaf and HOH community who found the stream specifically because it was accessible. Accessibility is not just the right thing to do; it is also good for growth.
Beyond hearing disability, captions serve a broader audience than most streamers realize. Viewers watching in public spaces where audio is not an option, viewers learning your language as a second language, viewers watching across language barriers — all of these people benefit from live captions. StreamTranslate 125+ language support addresses the full spectrum of accessibility and comprehension needs.
Your uncaptioned stream is inaccessible to hundreds of millions of potential viewers. StreamTranslate changes that with real-time captions powered by our industry-leading speech AI.
Language barriers are also accessibility barriers. StreamTranslate captions in 125+ languages make your stream accessible across language communities.
Captions are embedded in your stream via OBS browser source. Viewers do not need any software — they just watch and read.
Accessible streaming in 2026 requires two things: accurate real-time captions and broad language support. StreamTranslate provides both. The our industry-leading speech AI engine delivers captions at 95%+ accuracy, which is the threshold that makes captions genuinely useful for deaf and HOH viewers rather than frustrating to read. Caption accuracy matters enormously — low-accuracy captions can be worse than no captions, because they create confusion rather than clarity.
The 125-language support addresses the reality that hearing disability does not correlate with language. A deaf Spanish-speaking viewer in Mexico and a deaf Japanese-speaking viewer in Osaka both deserve access to your content. StreamTranslate generates accurate captions in their languages simultaneously, from your single English audio source, without requiring any additional setup on their part.
The OBS browser source integration means captions are embedded directly in your stream. Deaf and HOH viewers watch the same stream as everyone else — they do not need to open a separate accessibility tool, enable a browser extension, or configure anything on their end. The captions are simply there, visible to all viewers, making accessibility the default rather than an opt-in feature. Follow our setup guide to add accessibility to your stream today, and see our pricing for the right plan.
StreamTranslate provides real-time captions powered by our industry-leading speech AI, displayed as an OBS browser source overlay. Captions appear within 500 milliseconds of speech, making live streams fully accessible without any viewer-side software.
The World Health Organization estimates 466 million people worldwide have disabling hearing loss. Captions make your content accessible to all of them.
Yes. Captions make your stream accessible to deaf and HOH viewers, expand your audience to 125+ language communities via translation, and improve retention for viewers in noisy environments.
WCAG 2.1 and ADA guidelines both address live captions for public content. Providing accurate real-time captions aligns with both legal standards and ethical best practices.
StreamTranslate provides text captions in 125+ languages, not sign language interpretation. Accurate real-time text captions are the primary accessibility tool for most deaf and HOH viewers.