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German Auto Captions

German captions in short

Crayo transcribes German speech and adds animated captions to short clips from podcasts, streams and interviews. It is for clippers and editors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland who post captioned vertical clips to TikTok, Reels and Shorts.

German-speaking Europe is the largest podcast market in Europe, with interview, comedy and business podcasts regularly running two hours, and German streamers draw some of the biggest Twitch audiences outside the English-speaking world. Clips from those shows live on TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, where captions are expected on every cut.

German is written in the Latin alphabet with umlauts and the ß, and it is famous for compound nouns that can run past twenty letters. Transcription handles standard German well; Austrian and Swiss speech are transcribed as German too, though Swiss German dialect is far from the written standard and will need more edits in the caption list. Crayo transcribes the speech as German when selected.

A practical tip: very long compounds cannot be split across lines, so use a caption style that shows one to three words at a time rather than full sentences, and preview clips that contain long nouns to make sure they fit inside the phone safe area at your chosen text size.

Where German clips get watched
GermanyAustriaSwitzerland

How it works

  1. 1
    Upload a recording or paste a linkDrop in a podcast episode, stream VOD or interview, or paste a YouTube link. Pick German in the language selector so the audio is not left on auto detect.
  2. 2
    Crayo transcribes the German speechAutoClip transcribes the whole recording in German, finds the strongest moments and cuts them into vertical clips with word-timed captions.
  3. 3
    Style the captions and exportChoose one of 32 caption styles, fix any word in the caption list, then export clips ready for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
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FAQs

Frequent questions

Yes. German is in Crayo's language list and covers speakers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Select it before running AutoClip.

Yes. Every caption line is editable in the editor, so an umlaut, a compound or a dialect word can be fixed in place while keeping the timing.

All 32 caption styles apply to German. Word-by-word styles cope best with long compound nouns; preview the style on your clip before export.

Yes. The Translate button in the caption list converts German lines into English or another listed language while preserving each line's timing.

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