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Visuals in website may help reach customers, but nothing says “we speak your language” as well as actually speaking the target audience’s language. Language is the only way to fully engage a person’s culture, because language is culture.

One might challenge this by suggesting that a video can provide a personal connection, but to do so even a video requires words either in text or audio. Words are always needed, and they always need to be translated.

Do you have an audio- or video-recording of a speech, a presentation, a debate, a workshop, or a panel discussion and you need to have it presented in the form of text and translated from a foreign language into your native language or even any other requested language or vice versa? At first glance, it doesn’t seem like a hard task — not until you try it for yourself. Once you give it a shot, you’ll discover that it won’t be possible to get the job done without having professional skills.

It turns out that this type of work requires diligence, attentiveness, literacy, a high typing speed, an ability to not just overhear and figure out what’s been uttered by the speaker (the recording can be of rather poor quality), but what’s behind those words – the thoughts and intentions of the speaker, with the latter’s intonation likely to be crucial in some parts of the address. Or are you dealing with a recording of a heated debate where the participants keep heckling each other trying to interpose a comment or even happen to speak all at the same time? All this done in a foreign language and numerous specialized terms or a professional lingo used along the way? The quality of the recording poor? Besides, there are times when one has to recognize the speakers by their voice and figure out whom a certain statement is coming from. One can easily tell it when dealing with videos, while it’s hard to do it when it comes to audio-recordings. However, all this can be achieved if done by someone with extensive experience and using special computer programs.

Transcription of 1 minute of recording:

1. from Russian: from 0,85 EUR;
2. from English and other European languages: from 3,50 EUR;
   
3. from other foreign languages: available upon request.

1. Various ways to translate an audio-visual media
   

Vocal Localization

 Voice over Translation

 Vocal localization is one of the most important kinds of sound-recording. There are two major types of vocal localization: voice-over translation and dubbing. In voice-over translation (voice-over localization), the translated speech of the voice artists (voice-work) is heard on top of the original soundtrack. Voice-over translation can be done by a single voice artist or a whole team of professional voice-artists and announcers. This type of translation is among the most popular and preferred when it comes to TV broadcasts, vocal localization of films, TV series, and cartoons, as it is much cheaper than dubbing and takes much less time to implement.

1. Dubbing

The difference between voice-over localization and dubbing is that in dubbing the whole original soundtrack is replaced with the one created by the voice artists, with all the original sound effects replaced as well. In addition to these two types of vocal translation, there is also one using subtitles.

Vocal accompaniment of any video content such as films or TV commercials is widely popular nowadays. When it comes to pleasing the viewer, visual perception is just one of the factors of success. The other crucial factor is about how competently and professionally the vocal accompaniment has been put together. If you hear a disagreeable off-screen voice or

poor quality music in what you’re watching, we doubt your impression of the show will be satisfactory, even if the “picture” itself is informative and appealing to the eye.

Quality speech accompaniment makes it possible to reach the most important goal: attract and retain the viewer. Film translation tends to require a lot of effort, time, as well as a particular emotional disposition.

Our company is up to the task of handling any work in the way of voice localization, as it has access to experienced announcers and voice-artists, as well as all necessary equipment, and guarantees quality and timely vocal localization of any job you may need, be it a radio show or a movie.

This unique combination of professional translators, voice artists, and equipment concentrated within the confines of one company enables us to fulfill our clients’ vocal localization orders within shorter deadlines and at lower costs, compared with when these separate components of one job are handled by different agencies. Besides, this unity makes it possible to resolve issues arising in the course of the localization process more swiftly and efficiently.

The price of the service:

Russian speech — as from 8,50 €/min

English speech — as from 15,00 €/min.

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