Armenian Auto Captions

Armenian short-form content serves a small home market and a large diaspora spread across Russia, the United States, France and Lebanon. Interview channels, political talk shows and music podcasts in Yerevan produce long episodes, and diaspora viewers who understand spoken Armenian better than they read it still rely on captions when watching muted.

Armenian has its own alphabet with 39 letters and distinct uppercase and lowercase forms, and Eastern and Western Armenian differ in pronunciation and some spelling. Crayo transcribes the speech into the Armenian alphabet; if your guest speaks Western Armenian you may want to scan the caption list for spellings you would write differently.

A practical tip: Armenian words can be long and the uppercase forms are tall, so a two-line sentence style can get crowded. Styles that show a few words at a time keep the text readable, and previewing the style on the clip before export shows you how the Armenian letters render in that style's font.