China has one of the world's largest gaming populations, with hundreds of millions of players on platforms like Bilibili, Douyin, and Huya. While access to Western platforms is limited, Chinese-speaking audiences worldwide — including diaspora communities in Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe — are a massive underserved streaming market. StreamTranslate adds real-time Simplified Chinese (Mandarin) subtitles to your OBS stream via our industry-leading speech AI AI.
Start Translating FreeStreamTranslate renders Mandarin subtitles in Simplified Chinese characters — the script used by mainland Chinese speakers and the global Mandarin-speaking diaspora.
Beyond mainland China, Mandarin-speaking audiences span Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, and large diaspora communities in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK. One language setting reaches them all.
Switch between Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Cantonese, and 120+ other languages from a single StreamTranslate subscription.
Within China, Bilibili dominates for gaming and anime content, while Douyin (TikTok's Chinese counterpart) leads short-form video. Huya and Douyu are the primary live streaming platforms, hosting massive esports events and gaming streams. Access to Twitch and YouTube is limited inside mainland China, but millions of Chinese-speaking viewers outside mainland China use these Western platforms daily.
The Chinese-speaking diaspora is enormous — over 50 million overseas Chinese live in Southeast Asia alone, with large communities in North America, Europe, and Oceania. These viewers often prefer content in Mandarin or Traditional Chinese while living in English-speaking countries, making them ideal targets for streamers who can add Mandarin subtitles via StreamTranslate.
Popular gaming genres among Chinese audiences include mobile MOBAs (Honor of Kings), battle royales, and competitive FPS titles. Esports culture runs deep, with the LPL (League of Legends Pro League) being one of the world's most-watched esports leagues.
Sign up for StreamTranslate, select Simplified Chinese (zh) as your target language, and copy your OBS browser source URL. Add a Browser Source in OBS, paste the URL, size it to 1920x1080, and place the subtitle bar at the bottom of your scene.
our industry-leading speech AI transcribes your English speech and translates it into Mandarin in real time. Chinese characters render correctly in the StreamTranslate overlay. If you want to target Traditional Chinese readers (Taiwan, Hong Kong), you can select Traditional Chinese (zh-TW) as your output instead.
See the setup guide for complete OBS instructions and /pricing for plan options. StreamTranslate supports 125+ languages, so you can serve Mandarin, Cantonese, and other language communities from a single account.
Yes. StreamTranslate supports both Simplified Chinese (used in mainland China and Singapore) and Traditional Chinese (used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) as separate language options.
If Bilibili accepts your OBS stream output, StreamTranslate's overlay will be embedded in your video. Check Bilibili's streaming requirements for OBS RTMP configuration.
StreamTranslate uses our industry-leading speech AI for transcription and a high-quality translation layer for Mandarin. Accuracy is excellent for standard gaming vocabulary and everyday speech.
StreamTranslate supports 125+ languages and dialects. Contact the StreamTranslate team for the current status of Cantonese support as distinct from Mandarin.
Yes. StreamTranslate's subtitle overlay uses a font that correctly renders CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters at all standard stream resolutions from 720p upward.