Catalan translation services

Catalan translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with agreeing the target standard 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 Catalan linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, checking that verbs, demonstratives and possessives stay in the agreed standard throughout rather than drifting between central and Valencian forms.

Yes — Catalan translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary and one standard throughout, so the subtitles and the recorded narration never speak to the viewer in two different Catalans.

We treat it as one language with two standard-setting academies. The IEC sets the standard for Catalonia and the AVL for the Valencian Community, and a text written to one of them has recognisably different verb endings, demonstratives and possessives from a text written to the other. What matters for your project is which audience it is for.

If your audience is in Catalonia, or is the Catalan-speaking market in general, central Catalan to the IEC standard. If it is a Valencian client, institution or audience, the AVL standard. We ask at the brief and, where your recipient has its own style guide, we follow it.

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, as an adaptation by a native linguist rather than a mechanical conversion. The changes reach verbs, demonstratives, possessives and part of the vocabulary, so a linguist reads every line; it is usually quicker than a new translation and it is never a search-and-replace.

Yes, because the voice actor reads the script as written: the verb endings and demonstratives are in the words, not in the accent. We agree the standard before the script goes to the studio, so the wording and the voice are chosen for the same audience.

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.