Translate any browser tab — and hear it, not read it.

What it does

The extension asks the browser for the audio of your active tab, streams it to a real-time translation model, and plays a spoken translation back through your speakers a couple of seconds behind the original. The tab’s own audio is automatically turned down while the translated voice speaks, so the translation sits on top of the original rather than fighting it. Captions for both the source and the translation appear in the popup as the session runs, and accumulate into a transcript you can scroll back through.

It works on whatever the tab is playing: a YouTube video, a Twitch stream, a recorded lecture, a news broadcast, a meeting running in the browser. There is nothing to route and no virtual audio device to install. The extension only ever receives the audio the browser hands it, and only while a session is running — when you stop, it is not listening.

Two ways to run it

The same extension works either as part of a VoxisLive account or entirely on its own key. The second option is the one most tab-dubbing tools do not give you, so it is worth being precise about what each mode means.

One thing the browser cannot do

The Windows app has a free tier that keeps speaking forever — ten minutes a day, in a simpler voice that runs on your own PC. That voice is a local program, and a browser extension has nowhere to run it. So the free story in the extension is the honest, shorter one: a new account gets its 15 free minutes of the real voice, and after that you either add prepaid minutes or switch to BYOK, which costs nothing beyond your own Google usage. If you want the never-ending free tier, that lives in the Windows app.

What it will not do

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• It translates the tab, not you. The extension dubs incoming audio. It does not translate your microphone, so it will not speak for you in a call — that is the desktop app’s Meeting mode.
• It only hears the browser. Games, desktop apps and anything outside a tab are out of reach by design; a browser extension can only be handed a browser tab’s audio. The Windows app captures the whole system.
• Some protected streams stay silent. DRM-protected video on certain streaming services will not share its audio with any extension. The desktop app has no such limit, because it captures what the sound card is playing rather than asking the page.
• It is about two seconds behind. A spoken translation cannot be instant — that is the same span a human interpreter needs to hear a thought before rendering it. If you need sub-second text, you want subtitles, not a voice.

Privacy

Audio is captured only while a translation session is running, and recordings are not retained once the translation has been delivered. The extension does not track browsing history, clicks, keystrokes, scrolling or location, and it does not collect health or financial data. In BYOK mode it never contacts VoxisLive at all. The full policy is on the extension privacy page.

Install

Add it from the Chrome Web Store — it runs in Chrome and in Edge. Open it on any tab with Ctrl+Shift+1, pick a target language, and press start. Pricing for account mode is the same prepaid minute balance as the desktop app; see pricing.