Voice Subtitles
by Glam_Ardor
Voice Subtitles shows what players say over Simple Voice Chat as captions on screen, with optional speaker names and translation.
What it does
Speech from Simple Voice Chat is turned into live subtitles. Offline speech recognition runs on the player's own machine, so the spoken words are converted to text locally, and the caption feed sits along the bottom of the screen. The feed can also be set to show each speaker's name stacked above the hotbar, fading out as the conversation moves on.
The mod is aimed at roleplay servers, where much of the story is told out loud, and at players who are deaf or hard of hearing and cannot follow proximity voice chat. Text chat can be included as well, and a written log of each day is kept for about a fortnight on disk only. A translation feature works in both directions between Russian and English when a server speaks a shared language. Everything runs on the player's own machine. Voice Subtitles requires Fabric API and Simple Voice Chat, and Cloth Config API and Mod Menu are optional. The code is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 or later and is open source, with files for 1.21.6 – 1.21.8 on Fabric.
Key features
Live subtitles
Captions appear for speech received from Simple Voice Chat, with the text shown in a feed along the bottom of the screen.
Speaker names and colours
Names can be shown above the speaker's head or in the feed, and each speaker gets a colour derived from their UUID so the same person keeps one colour for everyone running the mod.
Directional markers
An optional small arrow at the front line points toward the speaker, showing whether the voice came from ahead, behind, up or down.
Story mode
Roleplay names can replace the player name, and the name shown is the character name the player has met, not the real account name.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
Optional 2
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players on roleplay servers that use Simple Voice Chat, and players who cannot follow voice audio in a noisy room or in a foreign language.
How it compares
Simple Voice HUD is a Fabric client-side mod for 1.21.8 under the MIT License, and it is not open source. PlasmoWords is also client-side for 1.21.8 but is under All rights reserved, so its code is not open. Simple Voice Chat TTS is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later and covers 1.20 – 26.2 on Fabric, and Voice Subtitles differs by reading speech into text rather than speaking text aloud.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voice Subtitles | Fabric | 1.21.6 – 1.21.8 | Client-side only | 2026-08-19 |
| Simple Voice HUD | Fabric | 1.21.8 | Client-side only | 2026-07-15 |
| PlasmoWords | Fabric | 1.21.8 | Client-side only | 2026-05-06 |
| Simple Voice Chat TTS | Fabric | 1.20 – 26.2 | Client-side only | 2026-08-31 |
Questions
Does Voice Subtitles need Simple Voice Chat?
Do servers need to install Voice Subtitles?
Does speech leave the player's machine?
In the catalog
Voice Subtitles is one of 5,392 Social mods on ModsFinder, and one of 4,084 Social mods for Fabric. 17,695 mods support Minecraft 1.21.8.
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What the author says
Live subtitles for Simple Voice Chat: who is speaking, and what they are saying, in a caption feed along the bottom of the screen. Voice chat leaves some players out. If you are deaf or hard of hearing, proximity voice chat is a conversation happening around you that you cannot join – on roleplay servers, where most…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/voice-subtitles
- Owner
- Glam_Ardor
- Published
- 2026-08-03
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-19
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15