German 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 German video is captioned in German, 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.

Umlauts stay on in every style: GRÖSSTE, WÜRDE, FÜR. In the styles written in capitals, ß becomes SS, the usual way German is written in capitals, so größte reads GRÖSSTE. Plain keeps sentence case, and keeps the ß.

German builds long words out of short ones: Unternehmensberatung, Nachhaltigkeitsbericht. Pop shows up to 3 words and 15 characters at a time, so a compound like these gets a caption to itself, and if it's still wider than the frame, the caption is shrunk until it fits, so no letter is lost at the edge of the screen. One word is often the best fit for German: one word at a time, big.

All 5 styles work in German: 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 German clip opens with a German 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.

Clyper's site is also in German: Deutsch.