Burmese translation services

Burmese translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with the encoding check on your source files included as part of the brief rather than billed as an extra step. Send your files and we will come back with a free, itemised quote, backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Native Burmese linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, working on the Unicode file itself rather than on a screen rendering that could hide a Zawgyi problem.

Yes — Burmese translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary throughout. Subtitle files, scripts and on-screen text are all delivered in Unicode, so they display the same way on every device.

Zawgyi is a font-based encoding for Burmese that became the everyday standard on devices in Myanmar before Unicode support was widespread. It uses the same codepoints as Unicode but assigns them differently, so text written in one shows as broken characters in the other. Myanmar set 1 October 2019 as the date for the switch to Unicode.

Unicode is the standard Myanmar's ministries and media moved to in 2019, and it is what current operating systems, browsers and platforms expect. The Unicode Consortium advises converting Zawgyi to Unicode before displaying it. We deliver Unicode, and if a specific legacy system of yours still depends on Zawgyi, we raise it at the brief.

Yes — audiovisual is our specialisation. We deliver spotted SRT/VTT and timed two-column voice-over scripts, plus translated text when you need it.

Yes, and it is worth doing before you reuse it. Burmese that has passed through several suppliers is often mixed, with Zawgyi and Unicode in the same document. We identify which is which, convert what needs converting and tell you which files were affected, before any of it goes into a translation memory.

For written material, standard Burmese covers commercial, corporate and broadcast work, and it is our default. The question that usually changes the outcome is the encoding rather than the variety: a well-written translation is unusable if it arrives in an encoding your systems cannot display.

Most short documents are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Word count, subject complexity and turnaround all move the date, and your project manager will confirm the timeline at the start.

Less than people expect: the document, script or subtitle file, its word count, what the text is actually for, and the date you need it by. A draft is fine — we would rather quote on what exists than wait for a final version that eats your deadline. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.

More than half of enquiries get a reply within thirty minutes during office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time), and the itemised quote normally follows within four working hours. After that you have one dedicated project manager who owns the job from brief to final file — not a ticket queue, and not a different name on every email. If it is easier, call +44 207 095 5730 and ask for them by name.

Yes, and it is one of the commonest reasons people get in touch. Tell us it is for a pitch and you get a figure you can put in front of your own client, itemised so it stands up to being picked apart, with no obligation and no follow-up sales calls if the pitch goes elsewhere. If it lands, the quote still holds and we already know the project.