OverHear captions any audio on your PC, right over your game: a YouTube video you've got running in the background, or your Discord squad. Live, in-game, no Alt-Tab. 100% offline, no bot, no cloud.
Live demo: captions appear as your teammates speak. Game audio stays out of it.
Other caption tools transcribe your whole PC, so in a game they caption gunfire, NPCs and cutscenes. OverHear captures the audio one app plays, so it reads your squad in Discord and ignores everything else, through the very same speakers.
It works with any app that plays audio: Discord, a browser call, a stream, even a YouTube video you leave running in the background. Choose it once and OverHear locks on, even while your game roars through the same speakers. No virtual cables, no drivers, no admin.
Everything runs on your machine, in real time, out of your way.
Captions land a fraction of a second behind speech, streaming word-by-word as your friends talk. A speed slider lets you trade a touch of delay for completeness.
A prebuilt speech model lives on your PC. After a one-time download, OverHear never touches the internet. Nothing is recorded, uploaded, or sent to any server. Ever.
It sips a single CPU core and idles in the background while you game. No frame-rate tax, no fans spinning up.
Font, size, any color via presets or hex, text and background transparency, width, position. Tune the overlay live and watch it change instantly.
OverHear never joins your server or touches Discord's API. It just listens to what your speakers already play, so there's nothing to get flagged.
Toggle captions or the overlay without alt-tabbing. A click-through, always-on-top window stays out of your clicks and your crosshair.
Leave a video, stream, or podcast playing and read every word over your game — no second monitor, no Alt-Tab. Works with any app that makes sound.
Caption more than one source at the same time — a YouTube video and your Discord squad together, each in its own color.
Drop the actual YouTube video into a small movable window over your game — watch it and read it without leaving the match.
OverHear started as an accessibility tool: for deaf and hard-of-hearing gamers who could never follow a Discord call over the noise of a match. If you've ever missed a callout, played in a loud room, or kept the volume down for a sleeping house, it's for you too.
No ads in your overlay. No subscription you'll forget about. Buy Pro once and it's yours, offline, forever.
No account. No tracking. Your trial and license live on your device:OverHear stays offline even when you buy.
No. OverHear isn't a bot and never connects to Discord. It simply reads the audio your speakers are already playing, the same way a screen recorder reads your screen. Discord never even knows it's running.
Completely. Speech recognition happens entirely on your PC with an offline model. Nothing is uploaded, and after the one-time model download the app makes zero network calls. Transcripts never leave your machine.
Yes, for any game in Borderless or Windowed mode, which is the default for nearly every modern title. True exclusive-fullscreen bypasses all overlays (including Discord's), so switch that game to Borderless and you're set.
The real-time model is solid for clear voice chat, and adds punctuation and capitalization automatically. Pro adds a heavier, more accurate model you can switch to whenever you'll trade a little latency for cleaner text.
Yes. Pick any app that plays audio: a browser call, a stream, a meeting, even a YouTube video left running in the background so its captions show up in-game. OverHear captions that one source and leaves the rest of your system silent to it.
14 days of the full Pro experience, no card required. When it ends you simply drop back to the (genuinely useful) Free tier, and you're never locked out of captions.