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Better YouTube Captions

A Chrome extension that overlays improved, high-visibility subtitles on YouTube videos. Fixes caption desync at high playback speeds and provides a clean, customizable look.

Features

  • Displays captions with better styling and centering
  • More accurate syncing even at 2x+ speed
  • Automatically works on videos with available subtitles
  • Fallback to YouTube's live captions when transcript is unavailable
  • Lightweight and does not interfere with normal YouTube functionality

Installation (Developer Mode)

  1. Clone or download this repository.
  2. Open Chrome and navigate to chrome://extensions/
  3. Enable Developer Mode (toggle in top right).
  4. Click Load unpacked and select the folder containing this extension's files.
  5. Visit a YouTube video page. Captions will appear automatically if available.

Customization

To change the style of the captions, edit styles.css. You can tweak:

  • font-size, color, text-shadow for readability
  • Positioning with bottom, left, transform
  • Caption outline (via multi-layer text-shadow)

Roadmap

  • Language selector UI
  • Toggle extension on/off via popup
  • Support for caption translation
  • Save user preferences

License

MIT License

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Chrome extension for better closed captions: increased contrast, customizability, and adaptability for >2x video playback speed

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