Babeltube

👥 3 users

📦 v1.0.7

💾 43.44KiB

📅 2026-05-20

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Overview

BabelTube detects when a YouTube video is in a language you don't understand and automatically selects the best subtitles — human-made if available, or auto-generated with translation as a fallback. It also shows a banner reminding you to use Chrome's built-in right-click page translation.

No API keys. No subscriptions. Works entirely with YouTube's own data.

Features:
• Automatic subtitle selection in your target language
• Auto-translate fallback using YouTube's built-in caption translation
• Optional translation reminder banner
• 100+ target languages
• Settings sync across your Chrome devices

What's New in v1.0.7:
• Language detection improvements
• More reliable detection on videos with no captions
• Clearer popup when video language cannot be determined
• Fixes for extension not running after recent updates
• Improved audio-language detection (player API, adaptive formats)

Note: BabelTube works on YouTube watch pages. YouTube Shorts are not supported in v1.