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Chinese subtitles your viewers can actually read at a glance

Drop in a long video and Clipzi transcribes the Mandarin, splits it into clips, and burns clean Chinese captions sized for phone screens. No timing by hand, no fiddling with character counts per line.

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Why Chinese captions need more than a generic auto-subtitle tool

Built for characters with no spaces

Chinese text runs without spaces between words, so a line that looks short can still be a wall of characters. Clipzi caps lines around 12 to 15 characters so captions never spill past the safe zone or cover a face. The break points fall at natural phrase boundaries, not mid-compound.

Simplified or traditional, your call

Whisper transcribes Mandarin audio and you pick the script your audience reads: simplified for mainland viewers, traditional for Taiwan, Hong Kong and a lot of the diaspora. The conversion keeps punctuation in the full-width style readers expect, so commas and quotes look native.

Handles fast speech and mixed English

Tech reviews, gaming and beauty creators switch into English brand names and slang constantly. The transcription keeps those Latin words intact instead of forcing a weird phonetic guess, so '这个 iPhone' stays readable instead of turning to mush.

How it works

1

Upload your video

MP4, MOV or WEBM, up to 3GB on the free plan. A podcast, a livestream recording, a long talking-head video, all fine.

2

Whisper transcribes the Mandarin

Speaker detection separates voices, so a two-person interview gets labelled cleanly instead of one run-on block of text.

3

Pick clips and caption style

Choose the moments worth cutting, set simplified or traditional, and the karaoke captions highlight each phrase as it's spoken.

4

Reframe vertical and export

Snap to 9:16 for Douyin, Reels or Shorts, check the line breaks, and export. Free clips carry a small watermark; paid plans remove it.

Features

Whisper transcription

Solid accuracy on clear Mandarin audio, including standard Putonghua across a range of speaking speeds.

Character-aware line breaks

Lines wrap by character count and phrase, not by guessing word spaces that don't exist in Chinese.

Karaoke highlighting

Each phrase lights up in sync with the audio, the style short-video viewers expect from Douyin and Kuaishou.

Script switching

One click between simplified and traditional output with full-width punctuation preserved.

Vertical reframe

Reposition the speaker in a 9:16 frame so captions and faces never fight for the same space.

Full editing on free

Edit text, timing and placement on the free plan. The only catch is a small watermark and 2 videos a month.

Frequently asked questions

How accurate is the Chinese transcription?+
On clean Mandarin audio Whisper does well, getting most common words and proper nouns right. Heavy regional accents, very fast slang or noisy livestream audio will need a quick pass to fix homophones, since many Chinese words share the same sound. The editor makes those corrections fast.
Can I get traditional characters instead of simplified?+
Yes. After transcription you choose simplified or traditional, so you can publish the same clip for mainland and Taiwan or Hong Kong audiences without retyping anything.
Will long Chinese lines get cut off on screen?+
No. Because characters carry more meaning per glyph, Clipzi keeps lines short, roughly 12 to 15 characters, and breaks at phrase boundaries so text stays inside the safe zone on a vertical phone screen.
Does it handle videos that mix Chinese and English?+
It does. English brand names, product terms and casual loanwords stay in Latin letters instead of being forced into pinyin or characters, which keeps tech and beauty content readable.
What does it cost?+
Free covers 2 videos a month with files up to 3GB and full editing, with a small watermark. Paid plans start at $9 a month and remove the watermark.

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