If you've ever tried to watch a Chinese streamer — maybe a Bilibili gaming session, a Douyin cooking stream, or a Taobao live sale — you know the pain. Auto-translate is garbage. Browser plugins clip the chat. And by the time you paste something into Google Translate, the moment's gone.

So I built Xitik.

It's a tiny Windows desktop app that sits on top of any livestream and generates real-time AI subtitles. You hear Chinese, you read English (or Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese). Sub-5-second latency. No browser extension. No overlay that blocks the chat.

How it works:

• Audio → speech recognition → neural translation → rendered captions

• Runs locally on your machine, streams only audio data to our ASR servers

• Works with any platform: Bilibili, Douyin, Taobao Live, Xiaohongshu, Kuaishou — anything with audio

Why I built it:

I'm a fan of Chinese content creators and got tired of waiting for fan-subs that never come. The live experience is completely different from watching a clipped VOD three days later. I wanted to actually be there.

Free tier gives you 15 min/day to try it out. No credit card needed.