Subtitle translation can help your videos attract more people and support engagement for domestic and international audiences.

Founded in 1978 and proudly based in Houston, Texas, our dedicated multimedia team provides fully managed subtitle translation services, so you can focus your time elsewhere.

Whether it be for films and TV to training videos, marketing content, and digital platforms, we supply translated subtitles in your preferred format.

Our approach combines professional translators, sourced by our in-house vendor management team, with our experienced subtitling specialists to make certain that the translated subtitles fit the screen correctly, read well, and reflect cultural nuance.

We manage the entire subtitle translation process. This includes transcription, translation, timecoding, quality checks, and delivery in the formats your platforms demand.

We make subtitle translation simple and audience-ready, and you can choose to localize a single video or roll out content across multiple markets.

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LANGUAGES OUR SUBTITLE TRANSLATION SERVICES SUPPORTS

At Omni, we translate and localize subtitles in over 220 language pairs. Some of our most requested languages include:

• American English
• Spanish
• LatAm Spanish
• British English
• French
• German
• Portuguese
• Urdu
• Mandarin Chinese
• Japanese
• Arabic

We have a network of native linguists who ensure your subtitles are accurately translated and adapted for audiences, wherever you need to target them.

The two types of translated subtitles are either:

• Open captions (OC)
• Closed captions (CC)

Open captions are permanently visible to the viewer because they are ‘burnt into’ the video file. Closed captions (CC) are an overlay that can be turned on or off.

For your videos, if you want to enforce accessibility and more flexibility in your captions, opt for open captions. They can be placed anywhere (although it’s standard that they are at the bottom), and factors such as font style, font size, text color, background color and the number of lines of text can be chosen too.

Closed captions are better for videos where you think that your end-users will want subtitles and some people won’t. They offer less customization as you are working with the standards and settings of the video player/destination (such as YouTube).

Also, if you want multiple translated subtitle files, closed captions are the best option.

In our experience, whether you opt for human or AI subtitle translation services should depend on your specific project and needs.

If you have a smaller budget and need to scale videos, AI subtitle translation can be useful.

While it may not be faultless, AI can provide a good general understanding of your content and message.

Note that AI is better at some languages than others, usually the languages most spoken, as it has been trained on more data from those languages.

But we would say that the usage of AI for subtitle translation depends on the setting. When accuracy is paramount in industries such as legal and financial, human translation is a must. If it’s for a lifestyle YouTube video, for example, and the client wants to translate the video to English subtitles, AI may be better suited.

WHERE OUR TRANSLATED SUBTITLE SERVICES ARE BEST SUITED:

• Advertising and Promotional Content: Translate marketing campaigns, advertisements, and social videos so they resonate in any market.
• Corporate and Branded Media: Subtitle organization announcements and internal communications for teams worldwide.
• Training, Education, and eLearning: Provide learners worldwide with translated subtitles for courses, learning modules, classes, lectures, and webinars.
• Film, TV and Streaming: Localize media and entertainment content for global release with subtitles that capture nuance and tone.
• Events and Live Broadcasts: Use real-time translated subtitles to make your events multilingual and inclusive.

As part of the human touch at Omni, when you send us a project, we manage the entire process from start to finish with personalized support.

1. Transcription: We create time-coded transcripts of your video content, ready for translation.
2. Translation & localization: Our native linguists translate your subtitles into the target language, adapting for cultural nuance, timing, and readability.
3. Subtitle formatting: We follow industry best practices for line length, reading speed, and synchronization, so your subtitles flow naturally with the visuals.
4. Delivery: Subtitles are provided in your preferred format (SRT, VTT, STL, or burned-in), ready to use on your choice of platform.

All of our subtitling projects are overseen by our in-house team and backed by ISO-certified quality assurance. That ensures that your subtitles are always consistent, accurate, and delivered on time.