Estonian translation services

Estonian translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with agreeing the scope of on-screen text 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 Estonian linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, checking it against the agreed scope so that no supers, captions or small print are left in the original language.

Yes — Estonian translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary throughout, so the voice-over, the subtitles and the on-screen text say the same thing in the same words.

If an audiovisual work, including a programme or an advert, is made available to the public in Estonia, the Language Act requires its foreign-language text to be accompanied by an Estonian translation corresponding to it in content and form, with narrow exceptions set out in the Act, such as language-learning programmes. Where your material will be shown is what decides it, and we ask at the brief.

The Act speaks of foreign-language text, and we read that broadly: supers, captions, on-screen claims and end-card small print are all things a viewer reads. We include them in the scope by default, so the Estonian version is complete rather than covering the dialogue and leaving the graphics in English.

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, the layout. For signs, notices and outdoor advertising, the Language Act allows a translation next to the Estonian text, provided the Estonian comes first and is no less visible. We flag it when the translation goes to your designer, so the Estonian line is not set smaller as an afterthought.

That is a separate decision about your audience. The Estonian version is the one the Language Act is concerned with; a Russian version is an addition, which we can produce as a separate language working to the same glossary.

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.