Subtitling · Armenian
Armenian subtitling services
Native Armenian subtitlers for corporate video, eLearning, documentary, broadcast and advertising. Delivered with Armenian punctuation intact, in the format your platform requires. Part of a full Armenian language service: subtitles, voice over scripts, and translation of any content you need.
About Armenian subtitling
The question mark sits inside the word, not at the end of the line
Armenian marks a question inside the word. The hartsakan nshan, ՞ U+055E, goes above the vowel that carries the intonation, so a question can arrive with nothing at all at its end. The Unicode chart annotates the character in exactly those terms: it marks intonation on the word rather than occurring finally. The exclamation ՜ U+055C and the emphasis mark ՛ U+055B behave the same way.
That undoes the assumption most subtitle tooling rests on. A splitter hunting for a question mark, an exclamation mark or a full stop finds none of them, because the sentence closes on the verjaket ։ U+0589 — two stacked dots a Latin-trained parser reads as a colon, when it recognises them at all. Cues get merged, intonation marks vanish in a cleanup pass, and what comes back is grammatically wrong in a way nobody notices until an Armenian reader sees it.
At GoLocalise, we work with native Armenian subtitlers, cut cues on the sentence rather than on a punctuation character, and confirm at delivery that every intonation mark is still sitting on the vowel it was put on. Where a file has already been through an automated pass, we rebuild the segmentation from the audio instead of patching it, because a merged cue cannot be pulled apart correctly on the text alone.
Which do you need?
Open captions, closed captions or SDH
Three different deliverables that people often ask for by the wrong name. Here is the short version.
Open captions
Burnt inSubtitles burnt permanently into the picture. Nobody can switch them off, which is exactly what you want for social feeds that autoplay muted — and in Armenian it locks the punctuation into the frame, where no text-processing step further down can strip it.
- Always visible
- Punctuation locked into the frame
- Delivered as a finished video file
Closed captions
SwitchableA separate file the viewer can turn on and off, and that can carry several languages at once. The standard for YouTube, Vimeo and the streaming platforms.
- Viewer controls them
- Multiple languages from one video
- Indexed by search engines
SDH
AccessibilitySubtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing: dialogue plus speaker IDs and the sound effects and music cues that carry meaning.
- Speaker identification
- Non-dialogue audio described
- Meets accessibility requirements
Subtitles or captions? The two terms are often used interchangeably. Strictly, subtitles translate the dialogue for viewers who can hear the audio, while captions are same-language and add speaker labels and sound cues for viewers who cannot. We produce either — translated Armenian subtitles or same-language Armenian captions and SDH — in whichever form your platform and audience require.
What we subtitle
Armenian subtitling for every kind of content
Armenian subtitling spans corporate and institutional video for the domestic market, documentary and archive work, and content aimed at a diaspora spread across four continents. These are the formats we handle most.
Corporate & training video
Internal comms, onboarding and product training subtitled for global teams and LMS delivery.
eLearning & online courses
Timed, readable subtitles for course platforms, MOOCs and instructional video.
Documentary & factual
Festival, broadcast and streaming documentaries, including interview clean-up and on-screen text.
Advertising & social
Burnt-in captions for muted autoplay on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and paid social.
Streaming & OTT
Platform-spec subtitle and caption files for VOD, OTT and broadcast delivery.
Accessibility (SDH & closed captions)
Same-language SDH and closed captions to meet WCAG and accessibility requirements.
Events, webinars & conferences
Recorded talks, town halls and webinars captioned for on-demand viewing.
E-commerce & product video
Short product and explainer videos captioned to lift conversion and reach.
How can we help you?
Your project manager has everything covered
One point of contact from brief to delivery, and both a linguistic and a technical check on every file.
Brief review
We review your video, your audience and the player, including whether any step in your pipeline splits or cleans text by looking for Latin punctuation.
Template and translation
Where needed, we create an English subtitle template first, then send it to a native Armenian subtitler.
Timing and quality checks
Subtitles are timed against the video and checked for reading speed, line length, the intonation marks sitting on the right vowels, and format compliance.
Delivery and display check
Files delivered in the format you need, with the Armenian punctuation confirmed on the destination player rather than assumed.
Our standards
The specs we work to
Readable subtitles are a matter of measurable limits, not opinion. These are the defaults we apply to Armenian unless your style guide says otherwise.
Maximum per line
Starting point, confirmed per spec
Maximum on screen
Bottom-weighted, centred
Reading speed
13 for children's content
Minimum duration
Seven seconds maximum
These four figures come out of Latin-script practice, and the major platforms publish no Armenian style guide to check them against — so we treat the line length in particular as an opening position and settle it against your delivery specification before production starts. The Armenian letters are alphabetic and close to Latin in width, which is what makes the numbers a reasonable place to begin rather than a number we would defend on its own.
Deliverables
Professional subtitle formats
We adapt your existing translations into subtitle format or create subtitles from scratch, in Armenian, English or any other language. And if the project needs a timed script or a plain document instead, we deliver that too.
Standard text-based
Compatible with most platforms and players.
Broadcast & professional
For broadcasters, post houses and streaming delivery specs.
Burnt-in video
A finished file with the subtitles baked into the picture, Armenian punctuation included.
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| Where it's going | What we deliver |
|---|---|
| YouTube, Vimeo & LMS platforms | SRT or VTT closed captions |
| Netflix, Amazon & broadcast | IMSC, TTML or EBU-STL to platform spec |
| Instagram, TikTok & paid social | Burned-in captions in MP4 (open captions) |
| Premiere, Final Cut & DaVinci Resolve | SRT / VTT that import straight into your edit |
Not sure which you need? Tell us the destination platform and we deliver to its exact spec.
Armenian specifics
Two standards, two orthographies, and a script with its own ligatures
Armenian comes in two written standards. Eastern Armenian is the language of Armenia itself; Western Armenian is the language of the diaspora, and the two differ in grammar and vocabulary, not only in accent. Laid across that split is a second one: Soviet Armenia reformed the spelling in the 1920s and the diaspora kept the classical Mesropian orthography. Which pair a project needs is a question we ask at the brief, because it is not something a reviewer can patch afterwards.
The script itself goes back to Mesrop Mashtots, around 405 AD — thirty-six letters then, with two more added during the Middle Ages. Unicode also carries five Armenian ligatures over in the Alphabetic Presentation Forms block, U+FB13 to U+FB17, which a given font may or may not include. Those are the characters most likely to quietly drop out of a file that has passed through several tools on its way to you.
Around 5.3 million people speak Armenian, roughly 3.7 million of them Eastern and 1.6 million Western. It is the official language of Armenia, and the rest of the audience is spread across Russia, the United States, France and the Middle East — which is why the first question on an Armenian project is usually which of the two standards your viewers actually read.
Since 2008
Subtitling & captioning
100+
Languages covered
ISO 9001 & 14001
Certified processes
24–48h
Typical turnaround
Subtitling rates
Professional Armenian subtitling
For single videos and straightforward content where accurate, well-timed subtitles are what you need.
- Native Armenian subtitler
- Intonation marks verified
- Frame-accurate timing
For longer content and recurring projects, including transcription, SDH, burned-in subtitles and multiple output formats.
- Everything in Standard
- Transcription and template
- SDH and burnt-in
- Multiple output formats
Every project is quoted individually and backed by our Price Match Promise. Send us your video for an exact, no-obligation quote.
Trusted by global brands
We have used GoLocalise on a regular basis for projects in a number of languages. The service we receive is great. The team is always friendly and professional. The voiceovers we receive are of a very high quality and the turnaround is extremely quick. We are very happy to recommend GoLocalise to other businesses.
It was a pleasure to work with David and the team at GoLocalise. David gave me lots of help and advice, guiding me through my first subtitling project. He really knows his stuff! The experience was completely pain-free. I would not hesitate to recommend GoLocalise – outstanding work at a good price.
They're reliable, adaptive and obsessed with quality. And while you can never be 100% guaranteed of perfection, you can be sure GoLocalise will go the extra mile to get it right every time. We've worked with them now for over 5 years and we are truly thankful to have such a strong localisation partner for our business.
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Most common questions
Where does the question mark go in an Armenian subtitle?
Over a vowel in the middle of the word being questioned, not at the end of the sentence. The mark is U+055E and it sits above the syllable carrying the intonation, which is how an Armenian reader knows a question is coming before reaching the end of it. Sentences close on a different character entirely, the verjaket, so an Armenian line can be a question and end on what looks like a colon.
Why does our automatic cue splitting go wrong on Armenian files?
Because it is looking for characters Armenian does not use. Splitters, aligners and cleanup scripts find sentence boundaries by searching for a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark, and an Armenian text contains none of the three. The result is cues that run two or three sentences together, and sometimes a normalisation pass that strips the intonation marks on the way. We segment on meaning instead.
Do I need Eastern or Western Armenian?
It depends entirely on where your viewers are. Eastern Armenian serves Armenia and most of the audience in Russia; Western Armenian serves the diaspora in the United States, France and the Middle East. They differ in grammar and vocabulary, and the diaspora also uses the older classical orthography rather than the reformed one. Tell us the audience and we will match both the standard and the spelling.
Does Armenian use capital letters in subtitles?
It does, which sets it apart from Georgian and from most of the other non-Latin scripts we work in — the alphabet has full upper and lower case and proper nouns are capitalised as you would expect. What a capital will not do is help software find where a sentence starts, because the character that ended the previous one is not a full stop. Capitals are a reading aid here, not a parsing one.
How much does Armenian subtitling cost?
Armenian subtitling is priced per minute of video, from £18. Segmenting the cues by meaning rather than by punctuation is part of that rate, not something added afterwards, and neither is checking the intonation marks survived. Running time, transcription, SDH or burned-in output and the number of formats move the figure from there. Every job is quoted individually with our Price Match Promise.
Can you caption footage that is already in Armenian, rather than translating it?
Yes. Same-language Armenian captions and SDH are a standing part of the service, and they are what accessibility teams and muted social feeds need. Working from Armenian audio also means the punctuation is decided once, by the subtitler who wrote the line, rather than inherited from a script that may already have had its intonation marks flattened.
We already have an Armenian transcript or SRT. Can you start from that?
Certainly. We spot and time from what you send, and the first pass checks whether the intonation marks and the verjaket are still in place, since those are what a plain-text export tends to lose. If there is no transcript we produce one from the audio first. Either way the file gets the same linguistic and technical QA.
Will these subtitle files open correctly in our editing software?
They will. SRT, VTT, STL and TTML carry the Armenian characters into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the browser-based editors intact, and we check the punctuation renders rather than assuming the font covers the block. Burnt-in MP4 or MOV takes the question away completely if the playback environment is unknown.
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