Kick Chat Translator by Pkkls

Open a Kick stream where the chat is in a language you don't read. Each message gets its translation right underneath, as it comes in. A green bar at the top of chat tells you it's running.

Type a reply and a preview shows it in the channel's language above the chat box. Click the preview or press Ctrl+Enter and that version replaces what you typed, ready for you to send.

Nothing to set up. Incoming chat is translated into your browser's language, and what you write goes out in whatever the channel broadcasts in, read from Kick itself. Both are overridable in settings. It handles 7TV emotes.

ENGINES

Google works out of the box, no key and no account. Add your own free DeepL key and quality jumps on European languages: their free tier covers a million characters a month without a card. DeepL also receives the recent channel lines as context so the wording fits the conversation, and it is asked for the polite register where the language has one, keigo in Japanese or vous rather than tu in French. To make a free quota last, DeepL is spent only on the pairs where it actually beats the free engines. MyMemory and Lingva sit behind as fallbacks, and when one engine fails the next takes over. You set the order.

DISPLAY

Translation below the original, inline with it, after it in smaller italics, or only when you hover. Hover mode fetches nothing until you point at a message, which cuts usage by roughly ten times on a fast chat.

FILTERS

Skip bots, block users or channels, or limit which source languages get translated at all. Emotes, mentions, links and emoji spam are stripped before anything is sent, so you are not paying to translate "kkkkkk". Background tabs pause themselves.

42 languages, right to left included (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian), with regional variants kept apart (pt-BR, zh-TW). The extension's own interface comes in 10: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

WHAT LEAVES YOUR BROWSER

The text of a chat message, and only that, to the translation engine you picked. Not your username, not the channel, not who said what. That is what the "website content" line in the permissions above refers to, and it is the whole of it. There is no account, no analytics and no server of mine: the extension talks to Kick, to the engine you chose, and to the GitHub releases page to tell you when a newer version exists, sending nothing with that last request.

Firefox does not yet ship the browser-level translation API that Chrome and Edge 138+ expose, so this build always uses the engines above. If Mozilla ships one, the extension already knows how to use it and will translate on your machine, offline and without limits.

Open source, MIT: github.com/Pkkls/kick-chat-translator