Arabic captions on every clip, word by word

There's no language to choose. For a YouTube link, Clyper takes the video's language from YouTube; for an upload, or when YouTube doesn't say, it hears it in the speech. If a YouTube video has dubbed audio tracks, Clyper uses the original one, so a Arabic video is captioned in Arabic, not in a dub.

The speech is transcribed word by word, with the moment each word starts and ends, and the video's title is used as a hint, so names in it come out right more often. Each clip's captions are built from those times: a few words at a time, with a new caption at the end of a sentence, at a comma and at a pause, so a caption never runs across two thoughts.

The captions are burned into the clip, so they look the same on TikTok, Reels and Shorts, with nothing to upload separately. More on styles, size and placement in how to caption short videos.

Arabic letters change shape with their neighbors, and lines read right to left. Clyper's captions are shaped as they're drawn, so every letter joins as it should and each caption reads from the right, in Noto Sans Arabic ExtraBold, as heavy as the Latin styles. The Arabic question mark ؟ stays at the end of a question.

In Latin scripts, Karaoke's yellow sweeps through each word from left to right as it's said. Through an Arabic word that sweep would run backwards, so for right-to-left words Clyper fills each word all at once, the moment it's said: the line still fills in the order it's spoken. Pop and Highlight light up one word at a time, as in any language.

Persian and Urdu are drawn in the same Arabic font (a clean sans, not the Nastaliq style Urdu is often printed in), and Hebrew in Noto Sans Hebrew. Each reads right to left, with the same word-by-word Karaoke.

All 5 styles work in Arabic: switch between them on the preview above. Pop is on every plan, Starter included; Pro and Studio add the other 4, and styles of your own.

• Pop: Three words at a time. The spoken word turns blue with a quick pop. Every plan.
• Karaoke: The whole line stays up and fills with yellow as each word is said. Pro and Studio.
• Highlight: The spoken word gets a bright yellow highlight. Pro and Studio.
• One word: One big word at a time, popping in as it's said. Pro and Studio.
• Plain: Calm subtitles in sentence case on a soft dark band, no animation. Pro and Studio.

On Pro and Studio, each clip opens with its hook as a headline in a box at the top for the first 4 seconds, like the one on the preview above. It's written in the video's language, so a Arabic clip opens with a Arabic headline. Reword or remove it on any clip in the editor, or switch headlines off for a video before you start it.

Clyper captions 50+ languages, each in the right font for its script. See how it handles these, or read about captions in every language.