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Live stream translation: every method, compared
Caption translators, Chrome's Live Caption, streamer-side captions and audio transcription. What each one actually does, where each one stops, and which to reach for on a stream with no captions at all.
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Twitch
How to watch a Twitch stream in your language
Twitch gives a translator nothing to read: there is no caption track on almost any channel. Here is what works instead, and why the usual browser tricks come up empty.
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VTubers
How to watch Japanese VTuber streams in English
Translation in chat depends on a volunteer being awake. Set up subtitles that are always there instead — and keep the names, units and inside jokes spelled the way the fandom spells them.
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YouTube
How to translate a YouTube livestream in real time
YouTube's auto-translate needs a caption track to work from. Lives, premieres and plenty of ordinary uploads do not have one — which leaves transcribing the audio yourself.
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Meetings
Live translated subtitles for Zoom, Meet and Teams
Each platform has its own captions, its own language list and its own price tier. What you get from each, and how to caption a call that none of them cover.
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Korean
How to watch Korean streams and shows in English
Chzzk, SOOP and most Korean broadcasters carry no English captions at all. What to do about it, and what to expect from honorifics, names and the speed Korean is actually spoken at.
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Comparison
Chrome Live Caption vs translated subtitles
Live Caption is free, built in, and does one thing well. Here is the line where it stops — source languages, translation quality, where the box sits — measured against a translating overlay.
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Media studio
How to add translated subtitles to your own video
Drop a file into the browser, pick a language, download the subtitles as SRT or VTT. Nothing to install, and the video never leaves your computer.
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Subtitles
SRT vs VTT: which subtitle format to use
Two formats, the same lines, and one comma of real difference — plus a short list of places where only one of them will load at all.
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