A recorded video can get a dub before you ever press play. A live stream can’t, because nobody has heard it yet: the press conference, the match commentary and the streamer’s next sentence are all happening right now. To hear one in English, or in your own language, the translation has to be made while the stream plays.
That’s what DubMog does. It’s a free extension for Chrome and Microsoft Edge: you open the stream, choose your language and press Start dubbing. A few seconds later you hear the speaker in your language. The stream’s own sound drops while the dub talks and comes back up in the gaps, and the translation also shows up as text in the side panel.
Reading this on a phone? Extensions install on a computer, so tap either button and send yourself the link.
Which streams it works on
The site you’re watching doesn’t have to support DubMog. It listens to the browser tab, the same sound that’s going to your speakers, so it works on streams whose video plays ordinary sound in the tab: a news conference, a product launch, a match with commentary, a game stream, a lecture or a webinar, a church service, a talk show. The stream doesn’t need captions, and the streamer doesn’t have to switch anything on. We tested YouTube Live, Twitch and Kick in Chrome on November 6, 2026, and all three dubbed live.
If a tab comes through silent, DubMog tells you within seconds and doesn’t keep spending your minutes on it. Before you decide a site is blocked, check the simple things. Is the stream actually playing? Is the player muted? A player can start a stream muted until you click its speaker icon, and DubMog only hears what the tab really plays. Silent tabs, DRM and what we tested →
YouTube, Twitch and Kick are trademarks of their owners. DubMog isn’t affiliated with any of them; we name them only to show where it works.
How to dub a live stream, step by step
- Install DubMog from the Chrome Web Store, or from Microsoft Edge Add-ons if you use Edge.
- Open the stream, press play and make sure the player’s sound is on.
- Open DubMog on that tab: click the DubMog icon in the toolbar, or press Alt+Shift+D (Option+Shift+D on a Mac). Until you pin it, the icon sits in the puzzle-piece menu.
- At the top, pick Standard or Live (that’s Pro Live, the natural AI voice). In Standard, set Video language to the language the stream is in. Choose yours under Dub into and press Start dubbing. In Chrome, the first time you use a language pair in Standard, the button reads Install instead; it downloads that pair once (tens to a few hundred MB).
There’s a quicker way in, too. Right-click the stream’s page, choose Dub this video with DubMog, and it starts dubbing straight away. Headphones help: with the dub in your ears, it’s easy to tell the voice apart from the turned-down stream.
Standard or Pro Live for a long stream?
Streams run long, so the mode you pick matters more than it does for a ten-minute video.
Standard is free: 30 minutes a day without an account, and unlimited once you make a free one, so it can stay on for a whole stream. It speaks with a voice built into your browser or computer. It listens to 23 video languages and dubs into 38 in Chrome, or 70+ in Edge. In Chrome the speech recognition runs on your computer; in Edge it uses Microsoft’s online speech service.
Pro Live is the natural AI voice, in 80+ languages, and it starts speaking sooner. It runs on DubMog minutes, and it counts the time the tab makes sound, not only the time someone is talking: a “starting soon” screen with music, a long stretch of gameplay and an ad break all count. Pro’s monthly allowance counts 2 minutes for every minute of audio (the member rate), and a pack counts 3.
| Stream | Standard | Pro Live with Pro ($9.99 a month) | Pro Live with packs |
|---|---|---|---|
| One hour | Free | 120 of your 600 monthly minutes | One 180-minute pack ($4.99) |
| A three-hour stream | Free | 360 of your 600 monthly minutes | Three 180-minute packs ($14.97) |
| Five hours in a month | Free | One month of Pro ($9.99) | Five 180-minute packs ($24.95) |
Pro’s minutes don’t carry over to the next month. Packs never expire, and checkout is in your local currency where available.
You don’t have to choose one for the whole stream. Leave Standard on, then switch to Pro Live for the part you can’t miss, like the announcement or the Q&A: press Stop, pick the other mode and start again. You can hear Pro Live before you pay, too. The extension gives you a free 30-second taste a few times a day. How many minutes do I need? →
What to expect while it’s live
A few seconds behind
Pro Live’s voice starts about 3 to 4.5 seconds after the speaker (a median of 3.3 seconds in our own tests), and Standard voices each phrase about 4 seconds after it begins. A dub has to hear enough of a sentence to know what it means, so it can’t be instant. It can’t talk faster than the speaker either: with a fast talker, Pro Live keeps up better than Standard.
One voice, one speaker at a time
It’s one voice for everyone on screen. When two streamers talk over each other, or a panel argues, the dub follows one of them and can drop words from the other. Interviews, keynotes, lectures and solo streams, where one person speaks at a time, dub best. Anything spoken in the tab gets dubbed, so an ad, or an alert read out by a text-to-speech voice, is translated along with the rest.
Music and game sound
DubMog translates speech, not singing. Loud music or game sound under someone’s voice can make the speech harder to pick out. Between lines the stream’s own sound comes back up, so you still hear the game, the crowd or the band.
Breaks and long silences
When the stream goes quiet, Pro Live stops buying time about 30 seconds later. If the tab stays quiet for about a minute and a half, DubMog stops on its own, and the panel says “Stopped — the tab went quiet for a while. Press Start to resume.” A break with music isn’t quiet, though. Press Stop yourself if you’d rather not spend Live minutes on the intermission.
Switching tabs
DubMog dubs the one tab you started it on, and it keeps going while you look something up in another tab. To dub a different stream, press Stop, go to that stream’s tab and start DubMog there.
Keeping what was said
The side panel keeps every translated line with its time (press Show next to Transcript). The times are DubMog’s dubbing time, not the stream’s clock. The panel keeps your three latest transcripts until you close the browser or DubMog updates, so if you want to keep what a keynote announced, save it with Download .txt or Copy all first.
On a phone, a PC or a Mac
The extension is for Chrome and Edge on a computer. On iPhone, and on Android 10 or newer, the DubMog app dubs the audio other apps play, as long as the app doesn’t protect it; if it does, DubMog tells you and stops. On a Windows 11 PC or a Mac, the DubMog app dubs what the computer is playing, whether the stream is in a browser or in another app. Some streaming services protect their audio, and those stay silent to the apps. DubMog for Windows → · DubMog for Mac →
Quick answers
Can I hear a live stream in English while it’s live?
Yes. Open the stream in Chrome or Microsoft Edge, open DubMog on that tab, pick English under Dub into and press Start dubbing. You hear the stream in English a few seconds behind the speaker, with its own sound turned down while the dub speaks.
Which streaming sites does it work on?
Streams whose video plays ordinary sound in the browser tab. We tested YouTube Live, Twitch and Kick in Chrome on November 6, 2026. If a tab ever comes through silent, DubMog tells you.
Is it free?
Yes, in Standard mode: 30 minutes a day without an account, unlimited with a free account. Pro Live, the natural AI voice in 80+ languages, uses DubMog minutes; Pro’s 600 a month cover about five hours of it.
How far behind the stream is the dub?
A few seconds. In our tests, Pro Live started speaking 3.2 to 4.5 seconds after the speaker, with a median of 3.3 seconds, and Standard voiced each phrase about 4 seconds after it began.
Does the streamer know I’m dubbing?
No. DubMog runs in your browser and the transcript stays on your computer. With Pro Live, the tab’s audio is processed in the moment via Google’s Gemini API and isn’t stored; in Chrome’s free Standard mode, recognition and translation run inside Chrome, so the stream’s audio stays on your computer.
Can it translate the live chat?
No. DubMog translates what the stream says out loud, not the text in the chat.
Get DubMog
Free for Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Watching on YouTube? YouTube in your language, and when its own dub is the better choice →
DubMog is also free on iPhone and Android, with the same account.