Whisper transcription for German
OpenAI Whisper transcribes German into its native script with word-level timing. Runs entirely in your browser via WebAssembly — no upload, no API key.
"Hello, world!"
"Amazing video!"
"Subscribe now!"
"Watch this..."
Drop a German-language video and Captionly transcribes it with AI Whisper, lets you fix names and proper nouns with a click, and exports SRT, VTT, ASS or a burned-in MP4. Detects German automatically. Free, in-browser, no signup.
German-language video has its own audience and its own search index. Captions extend the reach: they make German video accessible to sound-off viewers, indexable to search in German, and ready for downstream translation. Captionly is a free German subtitle generator that runs Whisper locally in your browser, supports inline editing, and exports the formats every editor and platform accepts.
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Supports MP4, MOV, AVI, WebM (max 500MB)
Accuracy on German audio, plus the controls editors need to ship.
OpenAI Whisper transcribes German into its native script with word-level timing. Runs entirely in your browser via WebAssembly — no upload, no API key.
Drop the file and Captionly detects German automatically. No need to pick a language up front, no setup screen.
Misheard a name or proper noun? Click the word, type the correction in German, the timing stays locked. Glossary handles recurring slips across the whole video.
All exports are UTF-8 so German characters, diacritics and punctuation survive cleanly into SRT, VTT, ASS and the burned-in MP4.
Download a finished MP4 with German subtitles baked in, or an SRT to drop into YouTube Studio, CapCut, Premiere, DaVinci Resolve or FFmpeg.
Free forever — no email gate, no Captionly logo on your German-language video, no daily quota.
Accuracy figures are approximate (100 minus the word error rate reported in the OpenAI Whisper paper, Appendix). Real-world results vary with audio quality, accent and dialect.
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Practical answers for editors working with German-language video.
Drop a German-language clip, edit the transcript if needed, ship an SRT or a captioned MP4. Free, in-browser, no signup.