Superb Documentary Translation Services

Documentary translation is taking a factual film into another language: interviews, narration, archive material and on-screen text. The work goes to linguists who do this particular job every day, not to a general pool, and each file is checked against the source by a second reviewer before it is sent. This site is built around translation across documents, websites, media and software from one supplier.

You can take subtitles, a narration script for recording, or both from the same translated transcript. Nothing there is an upgrade, and work that falls outside the agreed documentary translation brief is priced separately and only once you have agreed to it. A certified version and a plain working copy can be issued from the same job.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text. The format for documentary translation is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Your house template can be applied from the first order, which is what keeps a set of documents looking like one set.

Upload the material, approve the written quote and deadline, and work begins - no deposit, no account to set up. Say what the documentary translation is for when you send it, because a filing, a publication and an internal record are formatted differently. Say what the finished text is for - a filing, a launch, a reader - because the brief changes the wording more than the language does. Anything ambiguous is queried with you before work starts.

Payment is by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, PayPal, Square, wire transfer and checks, and businesses and institutions can be set up on monthly invoicing instead of paying per job. Firms and institutions sending work every month are invoiced monthly against a purchase order. Documentary translation is billed on completion against the approved quote, with no deposit taken up front. The price you approve in the written quote is the price you are charged.

Yes, in 100+ languages, each handled by a native speaker and not by someone working from a dictionary. What documentary translation involves does not change with the language, and the same independent check happens before delivery. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid.

Transcription starts at $1 per audio minute and translation at $0.10 per word. Documentary translation is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. Quotes are calculated from what the material is, how long it runs and how quickly you need it back, so two clients sending comparable material pay the same, and nothing begins until you approve the written total.

Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours is available, and the delivery time is confirmed in writing before you pay. Documentary translation is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool. If a deadline cannot be met you are told at quoting stage, not on the day.

Work is done by human linguists and compared with the original before it is sent, which is how the 99+% accuracy standard is met. What gets checked on documentary translation is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify alone: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. Dates, figures and proper nouns are checked separately from the prose, because those are the details a reviewing office compares first. One person working alone would not catch a detail that is right in one file and wrong in the next.

Access is the control that matters, so it is kept to the assigned pair and nobody else. Personal records, contracts and pre-filing material arrive daily, so access is closed by default and opened only to the pair on the job. Documentary translation often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. Transfer is encrypted, every person involved is under NDA, and files are deleted on request once you no longer need them held.