Gaavala is a Chrome extension that adds live captions, real-time translation, and AI voice translation (Speak Mode) to meetings running in Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, and Cisco Webex. 60 languages, speaker diarization, privacy-first architecture.
Read the meeting in your language with live captions that stream into a side panel and a floating overlay, speaker diarization built in. Speak back in any of 60 languages — hold a Push-to-Talk key, say your sentence, and Gaavala speaks the translation directly into the meeting. Teams, Meet, Webex, and Zoom on one install. Audio stays in your browser: it streams over an encrypted WebSocket straight to Soniox, and Gaavala's servers are not in the audio path.
Three steps from install to first caption. Setup takes under 30 seconds on your first meeting. Step 1: Add Gaavala to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store, confirm the permissions, and pin the icon to your toolbar. Step 2: Click the Gaavala icon during any meeting in Chrome, share the meeting tab's audio when prompted, and pick your source and target languages. Step 3: Read live captions in the side panel and a floating overlay, or on Pro hold Push-to-Talk to speak your translated voice into the meeting. Works in Teams, Meet, Webex, and Zoom — in the browser client of each.
$24.99 a month for Pro — or start with 5 free minutes, no credit card. Install free, then upgrade to Pro from inside the extension when you are ready for real meetings.
Compared to alternatives: Otter ($8.49 promo / $16.99 regular, no real-time translation), Krisp ($16/month, translation is a Call-Center-AI add-on), Teams Premium ($10/user/month annual-only, captions-only translation on Teams only), Interprefy (contact sales, human + AI on 80+ platforms without a public list). Prices verified 2026-04-18.
Official Speak Mode support on Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Cisco Webex, and Zoom — the big four. Live captions also work on Whereby, Jitsi, GoTo Meeting, BlueJeans, RingCentral, Slack Huddles, and most other browser-based meeting tools.
Speak Mode is the outgoing-voice feature on Pro. Hold a Push-to-Talk key while you say a sentence in your own language; Soniox transcribes and Gaavala translates the text into the target language, then Kokoro on-device or ElevenLabs cloud TTS synthesizes the translation and streams it directly into the meeting audio so other participants hear you in their language. Two voice options ship: Kokoro runs entirely on your machine with 24 English voices and costs nothing; ElevenLabs is optional with your own API key and adds multilingual synthesis plus voice cloning. Push-to-Talk is the default; a hands-free Timed Speak mode is also available on Pro.
Meeting audio never touches our servers. Gaavala is architected so meeting audio streams directly from your browser to Soniox over an encrypted WebSocket (TLS 1.2+) — Gaavala's backend handles authentication, subscription, and optional AI summaries you explicitly trigger, and is not in the audio path. Compliance posture: TLS 1.2+ in transit, GDPR Art. 27 EU Representative, SOC 2 and DPA availability on next compliance milestone.
5 minutes free. No card. Every major meeting tool. Install Gaavala for Chrome, join your next meeting in Teams, Meet, Webex or Zoom, and watch live captions stream into the side panel — or on Pro, hold Push-to-Talk and let Gaavala speak your translated voice into the meeting.
Add Gaavala to Chrome — Free