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Have you ever wanted live translations for HoloLive/Vtuber streams? Well, look no further than LiveTL! LiveTL (Live TransLate) is…
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Have you ever wanted live translations for HoloLive/Vtuber streams? Well, look no further than LiveTL!
LiveTL (Live TransLate) is a browser extension that separates translations from regular chat messages in YouTube and Twitch streams. It includes the following features:
* Filter translations for your language (messages tagged with [en], es -, etc.)
* Select your favorite translators
* Ban spammers polluting translations
* Freely resizable chat, translation panel, and stream
* Optimized YouTube chat with HyperChat
* Archived stream (VOD) support
* Custom user/mod filters
You can download LiveTL on other platforms too:
http://livetl.app/
Latest reviews
- (2025-07-05) Red Tape: You can also do this with Google translate and just hold you phone over the chat... Utterly useless
- (2025-06-28) Manche De Pelle: Doesn't works ... just a waste of time ...
- (2025-02-24) Isaiah Keeping: pretty sick, works well uhh... lots of features I like the chat translating, got some good laughs out of what it translates things to
- (2024-09-17) Steven Corona: I'm not sure what difficulties other users are having but it works fine for me. May be better or worse depending on who you're watching and if they have someone translating in chat at all.
- (2024-09-06) Luci Peldum: People seem to be getting confused about what this extension actually does--guys, it does not automatically translate chat messages! What it does is isolate messages from users who DO the live translating, which is common in big Hololive chats. If you're wishing to translate chat messages for indie streamers/streamers from orgs that don't have a huge international audience (who probably won't have members who do translating for the community), this will probably be useless to you. INSTEAD, you can download HyperChat, another extension by LiveTL, that has an automatic chat translator feature (it's still experimental but it works fine for me--it uses Google translate). Clicking the download button here sends you to the same website where that's available. Also, for the dev(s), maybe make it obvious that this is not an automatic translator? Leading with the sentence "Have you ever wanted live translations for HoloLive/Vtuber streams? Well, look no further than LiveTL!" is misleading. I think most people's frustrations here are coming from it not being what they expected. Otherwise, great work! Both of the extensions I use from you all are useful.
- (2024-08-30) James McGowan: embeds into chat and nothing translates
- (2024-08-20) joe i'mjoe: Can't accept chat rules while this is enabled. Might be an interaction issue with ytcfilter, but rather use that. Especially when I can use ytcfilter to filter for en translations.
- (2024-08-06) Dux Nihilo: I click on it and it sends me to their download page. What?
- (2024-06-15) sakamot o: these three weeks liveTL practically useless for me. everytime i click "embedTLs" on youtube the chat post area treat me as a logged out user. i check your github page and i see report about this problem from firefox user. i hope it getting fixed. no i dont use discord dont lure me to that undocumented blackhole of app development edit: it work just fine on twitch, i still can send chat after embedTL appears edit: [answering the dev] i use latest chrome for linux, i disable any privacy/adblock/no track thingy and, by default, now i get youtube monkey with hammer (something went wrong) right in the chat area. at this moment i use TLpopout+always on top if i need liveTL. thats it.
- (2024-04-29) Beks: How does it even work? Tried looking around and all I got was very confused. Doesn't look like it works anyways, don't bother installing.
- (2024-04-12) Chris Hall Aka Prize Gotti: I want to give this a better rating, but this extension is pretty much useless. No clear instructions by the Dev on how to use it, any that are provided are in jargon, ie "If there are no translators in chat", what the heck does that mean? What do you mean translator? The extension is supposed to be the translator! I read something that messages have to be prefixed with the country code, which is pointless because no messages have such a prefix. On top of that, the only message that even appear, though untranslated, are those made by the streamer/mod/another streamer. No messages from regular chat show at all. So again, what is the point? How is this useful for anyone trying to read the chat?
- (2024-04-11) Choca Pic: really good extension
- (2023-11-09) Eduard Van Der Westhuizen: Does not work
- (2023-10-15) 商琦: it didn't work
- (2023-10-15) 商琦: it didn't work
- (2023-08-16) MaskA Xi: nice
- (2023-08-16) Doll MaskA: nice
- (2023-07-25) dREV: EDIT 7/25: I changed browsers from chrome to brave and looks like it's working again. I was going to change browsers anyways but I can at least mention it's working on brave as intended. PAST 7/23-24: There's some bug now on Chrome. I am unable to even comment or post any emoji's using this extension. Turning off HyperChat returns things back to normal. It happens in normal and Open LiveTL modes so it's almost completely useless right now. I've tried redownloading the extension, washing completely the browser except for my bookmarks, visited link, and the web data files and it still happens. Any ideas? I am on the latest chrome and liveTL updates. I also want to bring up that youtube has been having issues with chat during live streaming. The stream would continue normal but chat would stall then continue as normal. It's been doing this the past couple of days.
- (2023-07-25) dREV: EDIT 7/25: I changed browsers from chrome to brave and looks like it's working again. I was going to change browsers anyways but I can at least mention it's working on brave as intended. PAST 7/23-24: There's some bug now on Chrome. I am unable to even comment or post any emoji's using this extension. Turning off HyperChat returns things back to normal. It happens in normal and Open LiveTL modes so it's almost completely useless right now. I've tried redownloading the extension, washing completely the browser except for my bookmarks, visited link, and the web data files and it still happens. Any ideas? I am on the latest chrome and liveTL updates. I also want to bring up that youtube has been having issues with chat during live streaming. The stream would continue normal but chat would stall then continue as normal. It's been doing this the past couple of days.
- (2023-06-24) Ali A: doesn't work
- (2023-06-24) Ali A: doesn't work
- (2023-06-14) Petter Henriksson: "Read and change your data on studio.youtube.com" Why does it require such access now all of a sudden?
- (2023-06-14) Petter Henriksson: "Read and change your data on studio.youtube.com" Why does it require such access now all of a sudden?
- (2023-05-08) Blood Sand: Does as described. An overall great app. I love the read aloud function, I long ago came to realize how much I've come to rely on it for streams I want to multitask during. When read aloud mode is on it no longer reads everything twice as I initially reviewed.
- (2023-05-08) Blood Sand: Does as described. An overall great app. I love the read aloud function, I long ago came to realize how much I've come to rely on it for streams I want to multitask during. When read aloud mode is on it no longer reads everything twice as I initially reviewed.
- (2023-04-27) Jk: Doesn't work, I've tried changing every filter, JP, Korean streamers, no messages ever came up
- (2023-04-27) Jk: Doesn't work, I've tried changing every filter, JP, Korean streamers, no messages ever came up
- (2023-03-20) Retr0シ: nice one
- (2023-03-20) Retr0シ: nice one
- (2023-02-02) Techno Idioto: This is useless. I've tried using it to watch Pekora and Botan yet no translations have ever come up. While this is useful, due to how few people ever translate the talent I watch, this add-on is completely and utterly useless.
- (2023-02-02) Techno Idioto: This is useless. I've tried using it to watch Pekora and Botan yet no translations have ever come up. While this is useful, due to how few people ever translate the talent I watch, this add-on is completely and utterly useless.
- (2023-01-01) 起司漢堡: 現代科技只能直翻,不同語言用法還有小圈圈會造成翻譯怪怪的 但可以了解目前在幹嘛,不錯用
- (2022-12-17) Ron2: twitch 出故障翻譯不會出來,白名單、設定指明用戶的留言都完全沒出來
- (2022-12-17) Candy Bonz: The custom filters is the most broken piece of s**t i have ever seen. It chooses to work once in a blue moon i guess.
- (2022-12-17) Candy Bonz: The custom filters is the most broken piece of s**t i have ever seen. It chooses to work once in a blue moon i guess.
- (2022-11-17) 튜브동: not work
- (2022-11-17) 튜브동: not work
- (2022-09-04) Hehe241: Really good!
- (2022-09-04) Hehe241: Really good!
- (2022-09-02) bram: very helpful
- (2022-09-02) bram: very helpful
- (2022-08-21) Madoka Ayukawa: I need to translate from Arab and this extension it doesn't have arab language as a translationsource (21/ago/2022)
- (2022-08-21) Madoka Ayukawa: I need to translate from Arab and this extension it doesn't have arab language as a translationsource (21/ago/2022)
- (2022-08-01) Tsuki In Your Eyes: Best one i've tried so far,very helpful especially for vtubers! hopefully will be even better in the future and stay free! Thank you!.
- (2022-08-01) Tsuki In Your Eyes: Best one i've tried so far,very helpful especially for vtubers! hopefully will be even better in the future and stay free! Thank you!.
- (2022-05-27) dREV: At first I was looking for something to capture english text for streams that go by pretty quick but seeing it in action I chose to instead mainly use it to cut on CPU, GPU, and RAM consumption. High volume chat tends to create memory of over 1 gb to 2 gh over time (say 30-45min). Forcing me to either kill tab and refresh or open a new tab and paste the address to reset the memory. With this however, I had multiple streams opened at the same time without it breaking 400-500 mb each tab. This is great news for me! Seems the chat displaying people's avatar image might be the culprit. Had Hyperchat on. The downside to this is that it messes with people special superchat message and stuff. I'd prefer if that wasn't touched at all.
- (2022-05-13) Alex: 10/10 would recommend. Does everything it promises. Very solid extension with hyperchat, which perfomorms dramatically better than the stock youtube
- (2022-05-13) Alex: 10/10 would recommend. Does everything it promises. Very solid extension with hyperchat, which perfomorms dramatically better than the stock youtube
- (2022-04-06) Josh Davey: Ever since 2.5 fixed the delay issue there is literally no reason not to use this over default Youtube chat. Fantastic extension.
- (2022-04-06) Josh Davey: Ever since 2.5 fixed the delay issue there is literally no reason not to use this over default Youtube chat. Fantastic extension.
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Installs
20,000
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Rating
4.8108 (719 votes)
Last update / version
2025-05-22 / 9.0.7
Listing languages
en-US