اردو · Perso-Arabic (Nastaliq)

Urdu Auto Captions

Urdu captions in short

Crayo transcribes Urdu speech and adds animated captions to short clips from podcasts, interviews and streams. It is for Urdu creators in Pakistan, India and the diaspora who post captioned vertical clips to TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels.

Pakistan has one of the fastest-growing short-form audiences in the world, with TikTok and YouTube Shorts leading, and Urdu podcasts, political talk shows, comedy channels and cricket commentary producing long episodes every week. A large diaspora in the United Kingdom, the Gulf and North America follows the same clips, and captions help them land for viewers who understand spoken Urdu better than fast conversation.

Urdu is written right to left in the Perso-Arabic script, traditionally set in the Nastaliq style, where letters join and hang diagonally, with short vowels usually left unwritten. Speakers mix in English constantly, and spoken Urdu and Hindi are close enough that auto detection can confuse them, so choose Urdu explicitly in the language picker. Crayo transcribes the speech into Urdu script when selected; names and English words are the lines to check in the caption list.

A practical tip for Urdu clips: preview the caption style on the actual clip before export, since right-to-left cursive text looks different across the fonts the 32 styles use, and keep captions to a few words so the joined letter forms stay large and legible on a phone.

Where Urdu clips get watched
PakistanIndiaUrdu diaspora in the UK, the Gulf and North America

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 Urdu in the language selector so the audio is not left on auto detect.
  2. 2
    Crayo transcribes the Urdu speechAutoClip transcribes the whole recording in Urdu, 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. Urdu is in Crayo's language list. Select it before running AutoClip so the speech is transcribed into Urdu script rather than detected as Hindi.

Yes. Every caption line is editable in the editor, so an English word or a name can be corrected with the timing left unchanged.

All 32 caption styles can be applied to Urdu captions. Fonts differ between styles, so preview a few on the clip and keep the one where the right-to-left script reads cleanly.

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

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