Bhojpuri subtitling services

It depends entirely on where the video will be watched. Devanagari is right for India and Nepal, and that covers most projects. Audiences in Fiji, Suriname, Trinidad and Guyana grew up reading their own variety of the language in Latin letters, and a Devanagari file simply does not work for them. Tell us the distribution plan and we will make the call with you at the brief.

Not honestly, no. A subtitle gets one pass at four seconds a line, so a script the viewer does not read is not a hurdle but a wall. Where both audiences are genuinely in scope we quote two versions and tell you plainly what each one costs, so you can decide whether the second is worth it for that particular piece of content.

They come from it but they are not it. Fiji Hindi is a koiné built on Awadhi with substantial Bhojpuri input, and it is taught in Fijian schools; Sarnami is the third most spoken language in Suriname. Both carry vocabulary and grammar the home market would not use, alongside the Latin script, so the right subtitler for those audiences is not the right subtitler for Patna.

Yes, and it is more than a conversion. Rewriting for a Caribbean or Pacific audience means a native writer of that variety making choices about spelling and word selection that no automatic transliteration will make correctly. We treat it as its own subtitling pass working from the same timings, which keeps the cost well below starting again from the video.

Bhojpuri subtitling starts at £20 per minute of video. Running time drives most of the figure, along with whether we transcribe the audio first, whether you need SDH or a burnt-in master, and how many delivery formats you want. A second version for the diaspora audience is quoted separately so you can weigh it on its own. Every job is covered by our Price Match Promise.

Yes, and it is a large part of what we do in this language, particularly for music video and film. Same-language captions and SDH serve accessibility teams and keep muted social feeds readable. The script question applies exactly as it does to a translated file, because a caption of Bhojpuri dialogue still has to be in letters the viewer can read.

We can, and it usually lowers the cost. We spot and time from what you send and check it against the audio, and the first thing we confirm is that it is in the script your intended audience reads — inherited files often arrive in whichever one the original supplier had to hand. Where no transcript exists, we transcribe the Bhojpuri audio first.

They will. We deliver SRT, VTT, STL and TTML that carry Devanagari intact into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors, and Latin-script versions raise no font questions at all. Where the delivery chain is long or unknown, a burnt-in MP4 or MOV settles it, since the text is then part of the picture.