Awadhi subtitling services

By deciding the conventions at the brief and writing them down. Our subtitler and your reviewer agree how the recurring words and verb endings will be spelled, and that sheet travels with the job and governs every later episode. Nobody has to guess twice, and a second linguist can check against something concrete rather than personal preference. It is the single biggest quality difference on a long Awadhi series.

The three-letter code awa. Awadhi has no two-letter ISO code, and the language subtag registry holds only one subtag per language, so awa is not a fallback but the correct tag. Some content systems and player menus assume two letters and drop it, which is how an Awadhi track gets published as Hindi. We set the tag and confirm it survived once your platform has ingested the file.

Not in practice. India counts it as a mother tongue within the Hindi grouping, which is why census figures look small, but a viewer who speaks Awadhi hears the difference immediately and Hindi subtitles over Awadhi dialogue read as a translation rather than a caption. We treat it as its own language, with its own subtitler, and say so on the file.

Yes, with notice. Awadhi is written in Devanagari today, but archive documents turn up in Kaithi, the old administrative script of the region, and occasionally in Perso-Arabic. Reading those is a specialist skill and it changes how we plan the transcription stage, so flag it when you send the material and we will build the right person into the team from the start.

Awadhi subtitling starts at £20 per minute of video. Running time drives most of it, along with whether we transcribe the audio first, whether you need SDH or a burnt-in master, and how many delivery formats you want. Agreeing the spelling sheet is part of the standard service on any project long enough to need one. Every job is quoted individually under our Price Match Promise.

Yes, and it is a common ask for folk, devotional and documentary material. Same-language Awadhi captions and SDH give accessibility teams what they need and keep a muted feed readable. The spelling question matters more here, not less, because a same-language caption puts the written form of every spoken word on screen where an Awadhi speaker will read it closely.

We can, and it usually reduces the cost. We spot and time from what you send, then read it for internal consistency — inherited Awadhi files often carry two or three spellings of the same word, because several people wrote them with no agreed sheet. We normalise to one convention, confirm it with you, and keep it. Where no transcript exists, we transcribe the audio first.

They will. We deliver SRT, VTT, STL and TTML that carry the Devanagari intact into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors. Worth knowing: some editors and web players will not display a three-letter language code in their menus even when the file carries it, so for those a burnt-in MP4 or MOV is the cleaner answer.