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## WhisperLiveKit Chrome Extension v0.1.1
Capture the audio of your current tab, transcribe diarize and translate it using WhisperliveKit, in Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers.
> Currently, only the tab audio is captured; your microphone audio is not recorded.
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/QuentinFuxa/WhisperLiveKit/refs/heads/main/chrome-extension/demo-extension.png" alt="WhisperLiveKit Demo" width="730">
## Running this extension
1. Run `python sync_extension.py` to copy frontend files to the `chrome-extension` directory.
2. Load the `chrome-extension` directory in Chrome as an unpacked extension.
## Devs:
- Impossible to capture audio from tabs if extension is a pannel, unfortunately:
- https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40926394
- https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/DET2SXCFnDg
- https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40916430
- To capture microphone in an extension, there are tricks: https://github.com/justinmann/sidepanel-audio-issue , https://medium.com/@lynchee.owo/how-to-enable-microphone-access-in-chrome-extensions-by-code-924295170080 (comments)