Speak in English, show German captions and audio—live in your Chrome tab with no bots, uploads, or stored recordings.
When you're presenting engineering specs to automotive teams in Wolfsburg, walking compliance officers in Frankfurt through GDPR audit findings, or demoing software features to manufacturing clients in the Ruhrgebiet, your English needs to land as German that handles case endings, gets the articles right, and delivers meaning even when your sentence structure puts the object before you've said what anyone is doing to it. Translext transcribes your English audio and generates German captions with optional spoken output, running entirely in the browser tab.
The extension listens to whatever is playing—your microphone on a Google Meet, a live Zoom session, a YouTube recording you're narrating over—and renders German in real time. No bots join your calendar invite. No files leave your machine. When you close the tab, the session is gone. You get free minutes when you sign up; credit packs add more. Chrome only right now.
German assigns every noun a gender and marks four cases, so translating English on the fly means the system has to pick *der*, *die*, or *das* and then inflect articles, adjectives, and pronouns to match whether the noun is subject, direct object, indirect object, or possessive. When you say "the manager told the client about the new process," German needs *der Manager* (nominative), *dem Kunden* (dative), and *den neuen Prozess* (accusative) without hearing the full sentence first. Translext makes those choices in real time. It won't always be perfect—gender and case are hard even for native speakers—but it handles the grammar load so your meaning comes through to German listeners who expect those inflections.
English usually goes subject-verb-object, but German main clauses put the finite verb second and shove other verb parts to the end, and separable-prefix verbs split apart: *abholen* becomes *Ich hole dich um drei Uhr ab*. When you're speaking English live, you'll say "I'll pick you up at three," front-loading the whole verb phrase, and the German output has to hold *abholen* in memory, render *Ich hole*, drop in the time expression, then close with *ab* at the end of the clause. Translext buffers just enough context to assemble grammatical German word order without waiting so long that captions lag behind your speech. You'll see the German sentence build as you talk, occasionally reordering mid-stream when a subordinate clause or modal verb shows up.
German enforces a T-V distinction—*du* for friends and peers, *Sie* for clients, new colleagues, and anyone you haven't explicitly agreed to address informally—and that choice cascades through every second-person verb form and possessive. English uses "you" everywhere, so Translext has to infer formality from context. In business settings it defaults to *Sie*, which is safer when you're presenting to a Mittelstand procurement team in Baden-Württemberg or talking to banking stakeholders in Hesse. If you're running an internal workshop with your own team and the culture is casual, the system may still pick *Sie* unless your word choice is unambiguously informal. You can't toggle it mid-session, so set expectations with your German audience if the register matters a lot.
Translext assigns grammatical gender and inflects articles, adjectives, and pronouns for nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive cases based on sentence context. It pulls from lexical databases and neural models trained on English-German pairs. Sometimes it will guess wrong—German gender is partly arbitrary, and live speech doesn't always give enough context before the noun appears—but it handles the majority of common business and technical vocabulary accurately enough that your German audience can follow your meaning even when an article or adjective ending is slightly off.
Yes. Translext captures any audio playing in a Chrome tab, including your microphone input on Meet, Zoom, or Webex running in the browser, a YouTube video you're presenting over, or a Loom recording you're voicing live. It transcribes that English audio and generates German captions in real time. The extension can't join standalone apps like the Zoom desktop client—everything has to happen inside Chrome. If your meeting or video plays in a browser tab, Translext will handle it.
Translext usually keeps them. German business speech is full of English loanwords—*das Meeting*, *die Deadline*, *das Team*—and they're often more common than German equivalents, especially in tech, consulting, and automotive sectors. The system will render them with German articles and case endings (*beim Meeting*, *die Deadline einhalten*) rather than trying to replace them with *Besprechung*, *Frist*, or *Mannschaft*. If you say a term that has a standard German equivalent and no borrowed form, the output will use the German word.
Translext defaults to *Sie* in business contexts because that's the safer register when you're addressing clients, senior colleagues, or anyone you haven't explicitly switched to *du* with. The system infers formality from your word choice and setting, but English doesn't mark T-V distinction, so it has to guess. You can't toggle between *Sie* and *du* during a session. If you're speaking to a team where *du* is the norm—common in startups or among close coworkers—the captions may still say *Sie*. Let your audience know if the formality level doesn't match your relationship.
No. Translext runs entirely in the browser tab with no cloud storage of session content. When you close the tab or end the session, the transcription and translation disappear. The extension does not record audio, store meeting transcripts, or log what was said. Your account tracks how many minutes you've used so it can bill credits, but no linguistic content is saved. If you need a record of what was translated, you'll have to capture it yourself with a separate screen recording or note-taking tool.
Live captions and translated audio for anything playing in your browser tab. No bots to invite, nothing to upload.