Chinese streams
Watch Chinese Live Streams with Live Subtitles
Bilibili and Douyin lives are fast, unscripted and almost never translated. Whisperr listens to the Mandarin audio and shows translated subtitles as the streamer talks, in 60+ languages on desktop and the web.
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Open a Chinese live
Pick a live on Bilibili in the new tab, or open a Douyin live in another tab, and leave it playing.
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Check your languages
Chinese to English is already selected. Change the target if you would rather read another language.
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Press Record, then pick that tab
Choose the stream tab in the picker and tick Share tab audio. Translated subtitles appear here as the streamer 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 desktop apps.
Watch on a computer
Two ways on Mac, Windows or any computer with Chrome or Edge.
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Chrome or Edge: tab capture
Open the Bilibili or Douyin live 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 a desktop app? Choose System audio in the Whisperr desktop app. It captures whatever your computer is playing.
Watch on iPhone and Android
Watching in the Bilibili or Douyin app? Put the translation on top of the video.
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Turn on Floating Subtitles
In the Whisperr app, pick the language the streamer 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 stream
Switch to the Bilibili or Douyin app and press play. Captions float over the video where the app allows its audio to be captured. If yours does not, use the microphone step below.
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Any device: microphone
Play the stream on speaker and let Whisperr listen. Turn Echo Cancellation off in Settings when the sound comes from the same device. Background noise lowers accuracy.
What to expect
Whisperr does not connect to any streaming platform. It translates the sound you are already hearing, so the same steps work for Bilibili, Douyin and any other stream you can play on your computer or phone.
Subtitles are machine translation of fast, casual speech. Background music, game sound and several people talking at once lower accuracy, and internet slang and names are sometimes wrong.
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
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Built for Chinese streams
Follow the stream, not just the danmaku
Chat scrolls past in Chinese and the streamer talks faster than any fan sub. Whisperr reads the audio as it plays, so you can follow along live.
Bilibili, Douyin and more
Gaming, VTubers, music, shopping lives and talk shows. Whisperr translates what you hear, so the stream needs no captions.
Live, while they talk
Subtitles appear while the streamer is still speaking, so you can follow the moment instead of waiting for a clip with subtitles.
Subtitles beside the video
Split the screen so translated text sits next to the stream, or pop the subtitles out into a floating window.
Chinese to English and more
Read Mandarin in English, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish and many more: 60+ languages on desktop and the web.
Floating subtitles on your phone
Watching in a mobile app? Floating Subtitles overlay translated captions where the app allows its audio to be captured.
Fast, casual speech
Lives are unscripted and quick. Accuracy is best when one person speaks at a time and the music or game sound is low.
Understand the next Chinese live you open
Add real-time translated subtitles to any stream. Free to try.
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