Facebook Live
Translate a Facebook Live in Real Time
Watch a Facebook Live in a language you do not speak. Whisperr listens to the stream and shows translated subtitles as the host talks, in 60+ languages on desktop and the web.
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Open a Facebook Live
Pick any live video, or the Live from a Page or Group you follow, in the new tab and leave it playing.
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Pick your languages
Set the language the host speaks and the language you want to read. Tab capture is already selected.
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Press Record, then pick that tab
Choose the Facebook tab in the picker and tick Share tab audio. Translated subtitles appear here as the host talks.
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Pop the subtitles out over the video
Opens the subtitles in a small window that stays on top, so you can watch in the other tab and still read along.
When the tab picker opens, tick Share tab audio — without it there is no sound to translate.
On Mac or Windows, choose System audio in the Whisperr desktop app. It captures anything playing on the computer, including the Facebook app.
Translate on your desktop or in your browser
In your browser, the Web App works in Chrome or Edge with nothing to install and reads the translation in 60+ languages. On Mac and Windows, the desktop app captures System audio, so it also works when you watch in another browser or the Facebook app.
Both can speak the translation aloud, and Broadcast Mode shares a link so other people can read it on their own phones, including when you are the one hosting the Live. Free sessions are time-limited, so for a full-length Live use a paid plan: paid plans are flat-fee with unlimited use and no per-minute or per-language metering.
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Chrome or Edge: tab capture
Open the Live at facebook.com in a Chrome or Edge tab, start Whisperr on the Web App, and choose that tab with Share tab audio ticked. This gives clean digital audio with no room noise.
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Mac or Windows app: System audio
Watching in another browser or the Facebook app? Choose System audio in the Whisperr desktop app. It captures whatever your computer is playing.
Translate a Facebook Live on your phone
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Turn on Floating Subtitles
In the Whisperr app on iPhone or Android, pick the language the host speaks and the one you want to read, then turn on Floating Subtitles and grant the overlay permission once.
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Open the Live
Switch to the Facebook app and press play. Captions float over the video where the app allows its audio to be captured.
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External speakers: let Whisperr listen
Some apps and devices do not let other apps capture their audio, for privacy reasons. Play the Live out loud on an external speaker and let Whisperr listen through the microphone on a second device, with Echo Cancellation turned off in Settings. Background noise lowers accuracy.
Watch any live video — translated
YouTube Live, TikTok Live, Twitch, Kick, Discord and more: follow any stream in your own language, with Floating Subtitles on top of what you're watching.
- Turn on Floating Subtitles and the translation floats on top of whatever app you're watching
- Whisperr listens through the microphone — turn Echo Cancellation off to translate audio playing on the same phone
- Works on iPhone and Android
Simple to start
All you need is a phone or a computer.
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Open Whisperr
Use the web app in your browser, or the iPhone, Android, Mac or Windows app.
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Pick your languages and audio
Choose the language being spoken and the one to translate into, then use your microphone — or the audio playing on your computer.
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Just listen, or just speak
Translations appear as people talk. To share them, send the room link or show the QR code.
Whisperr is available everywhere
Use it in your browser, or download the app for your phone or computer.
Keep your transcripts — where you want them
Save transcriptions and translations to come back to later, either in your Whisperr account or only on your own device.
Web app
Save to Cloud
Turn on Save to Cloud and each conversation is stored in your Whisperr account, so you can reopen it from Recent Conversations on any device you sign in on. Turn it off and nothing is kept.
iPhone & Android
Stored on your phone
Transcripts are saved locally on your phone and never uploaded to the cloud. Delete any conversation whenever you want.
Mac & Windows
Stored on your computer
The desktop app keeps your conversation history on your computer, without sending it to the cloud.
Privacy first
Whisperr translates your conversations without keeping them.
Audio is never stored
Your audio is processed in real time to produce the transcript and translation, then discarded.
Nothing saved unless you choose
Transcripts and translations are not stored on our servers unless you turn on Save to Cloud.
Never used to train AI
Your audio, transcripts and translations are never used to train AI models, and our service providers can't use them either.
Encrypted in transit
Everything between your device and Whisperr is encrypted with TLS 1.2 or higher.
Supported languages
Languages
62 languages
Afrikaans · Albanian · Arabic · Azerbaijani · Basque · Belarusian · Bangla · Bosnian · Bulgarian · Catalan · Simplified Chinese · Traditional Chinese · Cantonese · Croatian · Czech · Danish · Dutch · English · Estonian · Finnish · French · Galician · German · Greek · Gujarati · Hebrew · Hindi · Hungarian · Indonesian · Italian · Japanese · Kannada · Kazakh · Korean · Latvian · Lithuanian · Macedonian · Malay · Malayalam · Marathi · Norwegian · Persian · Polish · Portuguese · Punjabi · Romanian · Russian · Serbian · Slovak · Slovenian · Spanish · Swahili · Swedish · Tagalog · Tamil · Telugu · Thai · Turkish · Ukrainian · Urdu · Vietnamese · Welsh
Speak in any of them, translate into any of them
On the web app. The Mac and Windows apps currently offer 61 (all except Cantonese), and the Android app 48.
What users say
Whisperr review
“I love how easy Whisperr is to use and how it accurately understands and translates text and speech across different languages. It's so effective that even in scenarios where other tools might fail, Whisperr performs perfectly. Additionally, the ability to select languages for translation directly on a phone is fantastic. This feature helps us translate church services, ensuring everyone understands without missing anything important. The initial setup was straightforward, making it smooth to start using immediately.”
Fast Translations and a Clear, Easy-to-Read Layout
“It translated really fast, and the way the text appears on the screen—with its clear layout—is very easy to read.”
Whisperr Delivers Lightning-Fast, Highly Accurate Real-Time Translation
“The translation is extremely fast and accurate; after comparing several programs, I consider Whisperr to be the fastest and most accurate real-time translation app.”
Top-Notch Speech Recognition and Flashcard-Style Translations for Fast Study
“Whisperr's speech recognition and translation quality are both top-notch, and better than similar tools I've tried so far. Beyond that, as a Japanese learner, I especially like how Whisperr displays each sentence and its translation almost like flashcards, with a text-to-speech button for each one. That setup makes studying feel fast and efficient, and it's easy to review sentence by sentence.”
Simple Real-Time Translation for Work
“I like best about Whisperr is that it feels simple and straightforward to use.”
Awesome
“This is very useful, extremely user-friendly, easy to use, and the recognition capability is very precise, with very fast speed. It should be the most accurate and fastest translation I've used so far.”
Built for live video
Follow a Facebook Live as it happens
Facebook Lives are unscripted, fast and often in a language the page never translates. Whisperr reads the audio, not the captions, so it works on any stream.
Works on any Live
Pages, Groups, creators and community streams. Whisperr translates what you hear, so the host does not need to turn anything on.
Subtitles beside the video
Split the screen so translated text sits next to the stream, or pop the subtitles out into a floating window.
60+ languages on desktop and web
Spanish, Tagalog, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese and more, to and from English or any other pair in the list.
Live, not after the fact
Text appears while the host is still speaking, so you can follow along and react in the comments in real time.
Floating subtitles on iPhone and Android
Watching in the Facebook app? Floating Subtitles overlay translated captions where the app allows its audio to be captured.
Hosting a Live? Reach other languages
Share a Broadcast Mode link in your Live description so viewers read your words in their own language.
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