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German subtitles that get the long words right

Drop in a German video and Clipzi writes the captions for you. Umlauts, ß, and those famously long compound words all come out clean, ready to post vertical.

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Why German creators caption with Clipzi

Handles the long words

German loves compound nouns like Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung, and one of them can blow past your line width on a phone. Clipzi breaks lines at sensible points so a single word never runs off the edge of the screen.

Umlauts and ß, not garbled symbols

ä, ö, ü and ß come through as real characters, not boxes or question marks. The transcription keeps Straße as Straße, so you are not fixing encoding by hand before every export.

Built for the DACH audience

Most of your viewers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland watch with sound off on the train or at work. Burned-in German captions mean they read along instead of scrolling past.

How it works

1

Upload your German video

MP4, MOV or WEBM, up to 3GB on the free plan. Long-form podcasts and interviews are fine.

2

Auto transcription runs

Whisper transcribes the German audio and separates speakers, so a two-person talk show stays readable.

3

Reframe to 9:16

Crop the talking head to vertical and pick a caption style. Tweak any word the model misheard.

4

Export and post

Download the clip with German captions burned in and upload to TikTok, Reels or Shorts.

Features

Whisper transcription

Strong on standard German (Hochdeutsch). Clear studio audio gets you a near-finished transcript before you touch a thing.

Karaoke captions

Words highlight as they are spoken, which keeps fast German speech easy to follow line by line.

Smart line breaks

Caption lines are capped so long compounds and dense sentences stay inside the safe area on a phone screen.

Speaker detection

Interviews and panels get labelled per voice, useful for German news and talk formats.

Vertical reframe

Turn a landscape recording into a 9:16 clip without cutting off the speaker's face.

Full editing on free

Two videos a month, every editing tool, only a small watermark. No watermark from $9/month.

Frequently asked questions

How accurate is German transcription?+
On clean Hochdeutsch audio it is very good. Whisper was trained on a lot of German, so podcasts and interviews come out mostly right. Heavy regional dialect like deep Bavarian or Swiss German is harder, so plan to fix a few words there. The editor makes corrections quick.
Do umlauts and ß display correctly?+
Yes. ä, ö, ü and ß are kept as proper Unicode characters through transcription and export, so Müller, Größe and weiß render the way they should in the final video.
Will long compound words overflow the screen?+
Clipzi caps the characters per line and breaks at word boundaries, so even a monster compound stays readable. If a single word is genuinely too long, the editor lets you abbreviate or rephrase.
Which formats can I upload?+
MP4, MOV and WEBM, up to 3GB on the free plan.
Is there a watermark?+
The free plan adds a small watermark and gives you two videos a month with full editing. Paid plans start at $9/month and remove the watermark.

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