When it comes to translating videos there are usually two options: One is to add subtitles (written text that appears at the bottom of the video frame) and, Voiceovers (newly-recorded audio track in the target language over the original spoken language audio). Of the two methods the voiceover approach is somewhat higher in cost since […]
Translation of PowerPoint documents into virtually any target language is a commonly requested service. The most popular target languages are (in no particular order) Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Existing PowerPoint formatting can be retained when we perform translation projects using the original English version PowerPoint as the source […]
Occasionally we receive a request to certify a translation performed by a third party. The third party is sometimes the inquirer/prospective client, someone they know, or possibly even a machine translation output (possibly not identified as such). Generally speaking if our company certifies a translation it means that we have followed a process that involves […]
Why are perfect translation so hard to achieve? For starters what is a perfect translation anyway? It’s rare that two professional linguists will agree on a single best approach to translation of a body of text. There are typically options and multiple approaches to expressing equivalent meaning in any language. This is intuitively true even […]
Adding a Spanish voiceover to an existing video with an English speaker requires a few steps in the order listed below and described below. 1) A written text version of the spoken English 2) Translation of the written text into Spanish 3) Recording the Spanish voiceover with a professional voice talent 4) Adding the voiceover […]
Like any business we’re always interested in attracting new customers. Our success and longevity as a company is due both to taking care of existing customers and bringing in new ones. For new translation clients our goal is to make sure from their initial contact that they receive all the attention needed to meet their […]
