Kick Chat Translator

Translates Kick chat into your language as it scrolls, and your replies into the channel's.

NEW IN 2.9.2 The language list is a grid of flags instead of a column of two-letter codes, and one click opens it. It used to run the full height of the screen, 43 entries one per line, each of them read letter by letter, and it sat behind a caret of 10 by 6 pixels on a chip of 45 by 24: miss that and the click did something else entirely. Three columns of drawn flags fit the same list into 42 percent less height, a click anywhere on the chip opens it, and Kick's own interface no longer paints over it. The flags are drawn in CSS rather than shipped as emoji, because flag emoji do not render on Windows, where the system falls back to the very letters being replaced. The panel behind the bar's AUTO button got the same treatment: it was showing six entries out of forty. 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 in the chat box, 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. Works on live streams and on VOD replays, and it handles 7TV emotes. ENGINES Google works out of the box, no key, no account. Add your own free DeepL key (their free tier covers 1 million characters a month without a card) and quality jumps on European languages. DeepL also receives the recent channel lines as context so the wording fits the conversation, and it's asked for the polite register where the language has one: keigo in Japanese, 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. Chrome and Edge 138+ can also translate on-device, hardware permitting. The model downloads once per language pair, then everything runs locally: offline, unlimited, and no chat text leaves your machine. Brave and Firefox don't ship that API yet, so they use the engines above. 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 10x on a fast chat. FILTERS Skip bots, blocklist users or channels, or limit which source languages get translated at all. Emotes, mentions, links and emoji spam are stripped before anything is sent out, so you're 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. No account, no analytics, no server of mine. It asks for storage, for a wake-up timer so the translator stays ready while you watch, and for access to kick.com plus the translation engines it can call: Google, DeepL, MyMemory and Lingva. It also reads the GitHub releases page to tell you when a newer version exists, sending nothing with that request. Your chat text goes to the engine you picked and nowhere else, and on-device it doesn't even go there. Open source, MIT: github.com/Pkkls/kick-chat-translator