YouTube Live
Translate a YouTube Live Stream in Real Time
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Open the video you want to watch
Any YouTube video or live stream, in another browser tab. Leave it paused for now.
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Pick your languages
Set the spoken language of the video and the language you want to read. Tab capture is already selected.
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Press Record, then pick that tab
Choose the YouTube tab in the picker, tick Share tab audio, and press play. Translated subtitles appear here as the video speaks.
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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 other apps.
Also Available on iOS and Android
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Open Whisperr and pick your languages
Set the language the stream is in and the language you want to read.
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Turn on Floating Subtitles
Grant the overlay permission once. The captions become a movable bubble that sits above whatever app is in front.
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Switch to YouTube and press play
Translated subtitles follow the audio on top of the video. Drag them anywhere on screen while you watch.
Also Available on Mac and Windows
The desktop app captures system audio, so it translates whatever is playing — the browser, a desktop player, or a second app — without picking a tab each time.
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Install the Mac or Windows app
Sign in with the same account. The desktop app captures system audio directly rather than a single browser tab.
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Choose System Audio and your languages
Pick the stream’s language and the one you want to read. Nothing needs to be shared or selected per video.
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Press Record and play the stream
Subtitles appear in a window you can park beside the video, and keep working when you switch tabs or apps.
Whisperr vs YouTube auto-translated captions
YouTube can auto-translate captions on some videos — but live streams are a different story.
If YouTube auto-translate is greyed out or not working on a live stream, it is usually because the stream has no live captions to translate: live auto-captions exist for only a few source languages and depend on the channel’s settings. Whisperr skips captions entirely and translates the live audio itself.
| YouTube auto-translated captions | Whisperr | |
|---|---|---|
| Works on live streams | Only if the stream has live captions — a few source languages, at the streamer’s discretion | Yes — translates the live audio directly, no captions needed |
| Delay | Often 5–10+ seconds behind, and sentences rewrite themselves | ~0.2s, stable subtitles |
| Languages | Limited set of source languages for live auto-captions | 100+ languages, to and from |
| When the creator disables captions | Nothing to translate | Still works — it listens to the audio |
| In the YouTube mobile app | Built in, when available | Floating subtitles overlay the app |
| Price | Free | Free to start |
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.”
Easy to use
“Whisperr is easy to get started and no hassle at all. A great tool to learn languages and for travelling.”
Exceptional outcomes
“I attempted English to Hindi translation and achieved highly accurate results.”
Amazing
“Using it for Spanish to English and it’s amazing!”
Worth hundreds of thousands of yen
“The same performance as other conversation translation apps. Those charge by the minute, but this one is apparently a one-time purchase, so the value for money is outstanding. Compared with about five similar apps, this one is the best on both performance and price. I wonder whether it was made by a Japanese developer??”
Translated from Japanese
Built for live video
Understand any creator, live
Real-time subtitles for live streams — not delayed, auto-generated captions.
Real-time, not delayed
Subtitles appear in about 0.2 seconds, so you keep up with a live stream as it happens.
100+ languages
Follow creators streaming in languages YouTube auto-captions handle poorly or not at all.
Floating subtitles
On iOS and Android, captions float over the YouTube app so you never switch away from the video.
Tab capture on desktop
Capture the stream tab in Chrome for the cleanest possible audio and most accurate subtitles.
Any accent or audio
Handles accents and background noise common in live, unscripted streaming.
Live or recorded
Works the same on live streams, premieres, and regular videos.
Never miss a moment of a live stream
Add real-time subtitles to your next YouTube live in 100+ languages — free to try.
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