LiveToka – Live Translate & Captions for Any Video by Anders Lee

Turn the sound of any browser tab into live captions, translated while people speak. LiveToka listens to the audio itself, so it works on videos and live streams that have no subtitles, online courses, webinars and podcasts, and on web meetings in Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Open the tab with the video, stream or meeting.
2. Click the LiveToka button, choose the spoken language and the language to translate into, and click Start captions.
3. Captions appear on the page: each sentence in the original language with its translation underneath. Words appear while the person is still speaking, and the translation is written out about a second after the sentence ends.

FEATURES
• No subtitles needed – the audio is transcribed directly, including live streams.
• Bilingual captions – original and translation together, or translation only.
• Speech recognition in 55+ languages plus bilingual modes (Mandarin & English, Spanish & English, Malay & English, Tamil & English); translation into 100+ languages. Or captions only, without translation.
• Meeting mode – captions the other participants (tab audio) and you (microphone) together. Use headphones.
• Stays visible in fullscreen. Drag the captions anywhere, change the text size, hide the original.
• Full transcript in the side panel: copy it or download TXT, or SRT subtitles with timestamps.
• Keyboard shortcut Alt+Shift+L to start and stop.
• Stops by itself after 3 minutes without sound, so a paused video doesn't use your minutes.

PRICING
The extension uses your LiveToka account (sign in with Google). New accounts get 10 free minutes. Translation uses minutes at twice the rate of captions only, so 10 free minutes = 10 minutes of captions or 5 minutes of translation. For more, buy a one-time Minutes Pack ($4.99: up to 60 minutes of translation or 120 minutes of captions) or a monthly plan on livetoka.com. The same minutes work on the website and in the extension.

PRIVACY
Audio is captured only from the tab where you click Start captions, and the microphone only if you choose it. The audio is sent encrypted to LiveToka for transcription and translation and is not stored. Transcripts are saved to your LiveToka history only if you keep "Save to my LiveToka history" on. The extension does not read page text or your browsing history. Details: https://livetoka.com/privacy.html#browser-extension

NOTES
• Firefox captures the video and audio players on the page (Firefox has no tab-audio capture for extensions). A few sites play sound in other ways and can't be captioned in Firefox; Chrome and Edge capture all tab audio.
• Browsers don't allow extensions on their own pages (settings, extension stores).