LiveCaption by b-tok

Real-time audio transcription for video streaming sites. Optimized for Japanese anime content.

About this extension

LiveCaption captures and transcribes video audio using advanced Whisper AI models, generating subtitle files as you watch. Optimized for Japanese anime with Kotoba Whisper v2.0, it also supports English and 99+ other languages. Subtitles are saved as standard SRT files under ~/Documents/LiveCaption that can be loaded into any video player.

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Permissions and data

Required permissions:

Exchange messages with programs other than Firefox
Access browser tabs
Access your data for sites in the youtube.com domain
Access your data for sites in the netflix.com domain
Access your data for sites in the crunchyroll.com domain
Access your data for sites in the amazon.com domain
Access your data for sites in the primevideo.com domain
Access your data for sites in the abema.tv domain
Access your data for sites in the nicovideo.jp domain
Access your data for sites in the bilibili.com domain
Access your data for sites in the twitch.tv domain

Data collection:

The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.