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Transcription · Georgian

Georgian transcription services

Native Georgian transcribers for corporate video, eLearning and legal proceedings. Verbatim and clean read, time-coded, with the verb form that carries witnessed versus inferred kept exactly as spoken. Part of a full Georgian language service.

Native Georgian transcribers
Verbatim or clean read
Timecodes & speaker IDs
Proofread by a second linguist
Confidential, under NDA
Native Georgian transcribers
Verbatim or clean read
Timecodes & speaker IDs
Proofread by a second linguist
Confidential, under NDA

About Georgian transcription

Where Georgian is spoken and how the verb carries the sentence

Georgian is spoken by around 4 million people, almost all of them in Georgia, where it is the official language. It is written in its own script, Mkhedruli, and its grammar is built around the verb far more than around word order — a single Georgian verb form can carry the subject, the object and the tense that English spreads across a whole clause.

That density is also where meaning that other languages put in a separate word — including whether the speaker actually saw something happen or is inferring it from the result — lives inside the verb itself, as one of several tense-and-mood categories called screeves. None of it is optional grammar a transcriber can round off.

At GoLocalise, we work with professional Georgian transcribers who are native speakers, and we manage every step — file intake and brief, transcription, time-coding, formatting and final delivery — so the transcript you receive is accurate to the audio and ready for its intended use.

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Choose your format

Three ways to transcribe the same recording

The right one depends on what the transcript is for. If you are not sure, tell us the use case and we will recommend it.

Full verbatim

Every word

Captures every utterance, pause and non-standard pronunciation exactly as spoken, including false starts and overlap.

Best for

Legal proceedings, research interviews, compliance content

Clean read

Edited

Removes filler words, false starts and repeated phrases for readability, while keeping meaning and speaker intent intact.

Best for

Corporate video, interviews for publication, content to be translated

Summarised

Key points

Condenses the discussion into structured key points rather than a full record of the conversation.

Best for

Executive briefings, legal summaries, research documentation

What's included

What comes with every Georgian transcript

Georgian, English, or both

A source transcript, an English translation, or the two side by side. The translation is produced from the original audio, not from the transcript alone.

Timecodes

Stamped at the interval you need — per speaker turn, per paragraph or at fixed intervals, matched to your edit or subtitle workflow.

Speaker identification

Every turn attributed, by name where you supply them or by role where you don't — including through overlap.

Proofreading pass

A second native Georgian linguist reads the transcript against the audio before it reaches you.

Terminology kept

Legal, medical or technical vocabulary rendered to the convention your sector uses, not paraphrased.

Your format

Plain text, Word, PDF, SRT, VTT or a client-specific template — tell us the next step.

How it works

One project manager, from brief to delivery

A structured workflow, built so accuracy and confidentiality are verified at each stage rather than assumed at the end.

1

File intake and brief

We review your audio or video, confirm the transcript type (verbatim, clean read, time-coded), and note any terminology, speaker labels or formatting you need.

2

Transcriber assignment

We match your content to a native Georgian transcriber with the right background, whether legal, medical, corporate or media.

3

Transcription and QA

The transcriber works directly from your files. A second linguist reviews the transcript against the audio for accuracy, speaker identification and consistency.

4

Delivery

Formatted transcripts in your chosen format, whether plain text, SRT, VTT or a client-specific template, on budget and on time.

For multi-speaker research, hearings or archive projects, we assign a coordinated team and agree milestones up front.

Who we work with

Industries that rely on Georgian transcription

A written record is a compliance requirement in some sectors and an accessibility one in others. These are the Georgian briefs we see most.

Legal & compliance

Hearings, depositions and arbitration, transcribed verbatim and formatted to requirement.

Government & public sector

Consultations, committee hearings and institutional reporting in Georgian.

Broadcast & media

Interviews, documentaries and archive footage, with subtitle-ready templates.

Market research

Focus groups and interviews, including sessions with heavy speaker overlap.

Tourism & hospitality

Guest interviews, training material and promotional content for the Georgian market.

Academic & research

Lectures, field interviews and research material.

Confidentiality

Who hears your Georgian audio

Georgian transcription often means board material from a head office in Tbilisi, arbitration, witness statements or research interviews recorded on the understanding they stay private. So who hears it matters as much as how accurately it is captured.

Your files are uploaded through an encrypted system, handled by a named Georgian transcriber under NDA, and never fed into public speech-to-text tools. We will sign your own confidentiality agreement, follow your retention rules, and delete everything on delivery if your policy requires it.

Encrypted upload

No loose files over email.

NDA as standard

Yours or ours, before we start.

No public AI tools

Your audio never trains anything.

Deletion on request

Files removed on delivery if you need it.

Georgian specifics

A Georgian transcript can spell every letter right and still tell the wrong story

Georgian organises its verbs into tense-and-mood categories called screeves, and one of them carries something most languages hand to a separate word: whether the speaker actually saw the event or is inferring it from what they found afterwards. Grammatical descriptions of the language are explicit that this evidential meaning is completely absent from the everyday past tense and present only in the perfect series — it is not a nuance layered on top of the verb, it is a different verb form.

The difference shows up on the same sentence. 'S/he put the chair on the balcony', in the ordinary past, states it as witnessed fact. Change only the verb form to the perfect series and the same sentence becomes 'As it seems, s/he put the chair on the balcony' — inferred, or reported, not seen. Same subject, same chair, same balcony. The only thing that moved is which of those two things actually happened, as far as the speaker can vouch for it.

That is exactly the kind of form a transcriber unfamiliar with the screeve system can flatten by accident, especially moving from verbatim to a cleaner read: an unusual-sounding perfect gets quietly regularised to the more common past. Nothing about the sentence looks wrong afterwards — it just now claims the speaker saw something they only inferred. Our Georgian transcribers write the screeve that was actually used and leave that distinction exactly where the speaker put it.

Transcription rates

Professional Georgian transcription

Standard

Best for clean read transcripts of corporate video, interviews and internal communications.

  • Native Georgian transcriber
  • Verbatim or clean read
  • Speaker identification
  • Proofreading pass
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Full production

A complete managed service for legal proceedings, multi-speaker research and longer-form content requiring verbatim, time-coded or translated deliverables.

  • Everything in Standard
  • Subject-specialist linguist
  • Timecodes and speaker IDs
  • Georgian and English in one pass
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Priced by runtime, audio quality, number of speakers and turnaround, and backed by our Price Match Promise. Send us a sample for an exact, no-obligation quote.

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Most common questions

What is a screeve, and why does it matter for transcription?

It is one of the tense-and-mood categories Georgian verbs are organised into, and unlike English tense, some screeves carry evidential meaning: whether the speaker witnessed something or is inferring it. Grammatical accounts of Georgian are explicit that this meaning belongs to the perfect series and is completely absent elsewhere, so the screeve used is part of what the sentence actually claims.

Can one Georgian verb form really change whether an event was witnessed?

Yes, without changing the subject, the object or anything else in the sentence. A documented pair shows a witnessed past — 's/he put the chair on the balcony' — becoming, with the verb alone switched to its perfect form, 'as it seems, s/he put the chair on the balcony': inferred rather than seen. The rest of the sentence is identical; only the claim about how the speaker knows has moved.

Is this something a transcriber could get wrong without noticing?

Easily, and it happens through tidying rather than mishearing. An unusual-sounding perfect screeve can get smoothed into the more familiar past tense during a clean-up pass, and the resulting sentence still reads perfectly naturally. Nothing flags the change, because grammatically it is a small one — it just quietly turns an inference into a witnessed fact.

Why does this matter more in legal or investigative transcripts?

Because 'I saw it happen' and 'I'm assuming it happened' are different statements, and in Georgian that difference can sit entirely inside the verb rather than in a separate phrase a reviewer would notice missing. A transcriber who does not track screeves can hand over a witness statement that claims more certainty than the witness actually gave, without either party realising it happened.

Which Georgian transcription format should I ask for?

Clean read suits corporate video, interviews for publication and anything heading for translation: filler words and false starts come out, meaning stays. Verbatim is what legal proceedings, compliance material and research interviews need, because every utterance and pause is on the record. Either way the verb's evidential meaning is kept exactly as spoken. Your project manager confirms the choice against your end use.

What does Georgian transcription cost?

There is no flat rate, because no two files take the same work. Runtime, recording quality, how many people are talking, your deadline and whether you also need an English version all move the figure. Dense testimony or technical material, where verb forms carry more of the meaning, takes longer than a scripted piece to camera. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise.

How do you protect confidential Georgian recordings?

Upload is encrypted, the file goes to one named Georgian transcriber who has signed an NDA, and nothing is put through public speech-to-text services at any point. If you have your own confidentiality agreement we sign it, if you have retention rules we work to them, and if your policy says the audio goes once the transcript is approved, we delete it.

How will the finished Georgian transcript be delivered?

In whatever the next step needs: plain text, Word, PDF, SRT, VTT or your own template, with timecodes and speaker labels set the way you want them, in Georgian script throughout. Tell us what happens to the transcript after we send it and we format it for that, not for us.

Ready to transcribe your Georgian audio?

Send us the files and tell us where the transcript will end up — we'll come back with an exact, itemised quote.

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