Subtitling · Greek
Greek subtitling services
Native Greek subtitlers for corporate video, eLearning, streaming content, documentary and advertising. Greece and Cyprus, delivered in the format your platform requires. Part of a full Greek language service: subtitles, voice over scripts, and translation of any content you need.
About Greek subtitling
Greek subtitles for an audience used to reading them
Around 13 million people speak Greek. Like much of southern and northern Europe outside the large dubbing markets, Greece subtitles foreign content rather than dubbing it, so audiences are practised readers with clear expectations about pacing and phrasing.
The technical consideration is the alphabet. Greek uses its own script, which is well supported in modern systems but still produces encoding problems in older broadcast workflows and in files passed between tools that default to Latin character sets. Greek also expands against English, so subtitle lines need condensing rather than direct translation.
At GoLocalise, we work with native Greek subtitlers and every file passes linguistic and technical QA before it is delivered.
Which do you need?
Open captions, closed captions or SDH
Three different deliverables that people often ask for by the wrong name. Here is the short version.
Open captions
Burnt inSubtitles burnt permanently into the picture. Nobody can switch them off, which is exactly what you want for social feeds that autoplay muted — and it takes the encoding question away from the player entirely.
- Always visible
- Greek characters fixed at delivery
- Delivered as a finished video file
Closed captions
SwitchableA separate file the viewer can turn on and off, and that can carry several languages at once. The standard for YouTube, Vimeo and the streaming platforms.
- Viewer controls them
- Multiple languages from one video
- Indexed by search engines
SDH
AccessibilitySubtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing: dialogue plus speaker IDs and the sound effects and music cues that carry meaning.
- Speaker identification
- Non-dialogue audio described
- Meets accessibility requirements
Subtitles or captions? The two terms are often used interchangeably. Strictly, subtitles translate the dialogue for viewers who can hear the audio, while captions are same-language and add speaker labels and sound cues for viewers who cannot. We produce either — translated Greek subtitles or same-language Greek captions and SDH — in whichever form your platform and audience require.
What we subtitle
Greek subtitling for every kind of content
Greek subtitling spans corporate, broadcast, streaming and tourism work for a market that reads subtitles as a matter of course. These are the formats we handle most.
Corporate & training video
Internal comms, onboarding and product training subtitled for global teams and LMS delivery.
eLearning & online courses
Timed, readable subtitles for course platforms, MOOCs and instructional video.
Documentary & factual
Festival, broadcast and streaming documentaries, including interview clean-up and on-screen text.
Advertising & social
Burnt-in captions for muted autoplay on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and paid social.
Streaming & OTT
Platform-spec subtitle and caption files for VOD, OTT and broadcast delivery.
Accessibility (SDH & closed captions)
Same-language SDH and closed captions to meet WCAG and accessibility requirements.
Events, webinars & conferences
Recorded talks, town halls and webinars captioned for on-demand viewing.
E-commerce & product video
Short product and explainer videos captioned to lift conversion and reach.
How can we help you?
Your project manager has everything covered
One point of contact from brief to delivery, and both a linguistic and a technical check on every file.
Brief review
We review your video, your audience, and where the file is going to be published.
Template and translation
Where needed, we create an English subtitle template first, then send it to a native Greek subtitler.
Timing and quality checks
Subtitles are timed against the video and checked for reading speed, line length, character encoding, and format compliance.
Delivery
Your subtitle files in the format your platform requires, on budget and on time.
Our standards
The specs we work to
Readable subtitles are a matter of measurable limits, not opinion. These are the defaults we apply to Greek unless your style guide says otherwise.
Maximum per line
37 for broadcast delivery
Maximum on screen
Bottom-weighted, centred
Reading speed
Lower for children's content
Minimum duration
Seven seconds maximum
Greek generally runs longer than English, which affects how much can sit in a line. Rather than raising reading speed or letting lines overflow, the subtitler condenses to fit, preserving meaning and tone within the character limit. This is standard practice in Greek subtitling, and part of why subtitling experience matters more here than general translation ability.
Deliverables
Professional subtitle formats
We adapt your existing translations into subtitle format or create subtitles from scratch, in Greek, English or any other language. And if the project needs a timed script or a plain document instead, we deliver that too.
Standard text-based
Compatible with most platforms and players.
Broadcast & professional
For broadcasters, post houses and streaming delivery specs.
Burnt-in video
A finished file with the subtitles baked into the picture.
Need a different format? Convert SRT, VTT and more with our free subtitle converter →
| Where it's going | What we deliver |
|---|---|
| YouTube, Vimeo & LMS platforms | SRT or VTT closed captions |
| Netflix, Amazon & broadcast | IMSC, TTML or EBU-STL to platform spec |
| Instagram, TikTok & paid social | Burned-in captions in MP4 (open captions) |
| Premiere, Final Cut & DaVinci Resolve | SRT / VTT that import straight into your edit |
Not sure which you need? Tell us the destination platform and we deliver to its exact spec.
Greek specifics
Greece and Cyprus, and the encoding that still bites
For most content, one Greek file covers both markets. Standard Modern Greek serves Greece and Cyprus alike, and a single version reads correctly on either side.
Where it stops being enough is register. Cypriot Greek differs noticeably in speech and carries its own vocabulary, though written subtitling for Cyprus follows the standard. Where content is aimed specifically at a Cypriot audience and the register is informal, we will raise it at the brief.
The other thing to settle early is encoding for broadcast. Modern formats handle Greek without difficulty, but older broadcast workflows and legacy STL files can still mangle the character set if the encoding is not set correctly. Tell us the delivery specification at the brief stage and the files will conform to it.
Since 2008
Subtitling & captioning
100+
Languages covered
ISO 9001 & 14001
Certified processes
24–48h
Typical turnaround
Subtitling rates
Professional Greek subtitling
For single videos and straightforward content where accurate, well-timed subtitles are what you need.
- Native Greek subtitler
- Greece or Cyprus
- Frame-accurate timing
For longer content and recurring projects, including transcription, SDH, burned-in subtitles and multiple output formats.
- Everything in Standard
- Transcription and template
- SDH and burnt-in
- Multiple output formats
Every project is quoted individually and backed by our Price Match Promise. Send us your video for an exact, no-obligation quote.
Trusted by global brands
We have used GoLocalise on a regular basis for projects in a number of languages. The service we receive is great. The team is always friendly and professional. The voiceovers we receive are of a very high quality and the turnaround is extremely quick. We are very happy to recommend GoLocalise to other businesses.
It was a pleasure to work with David and the team at GoLocalise. David gave me lots of help and advice, guiding me through my first subtitling project. He really knows his stuff! The experience was completely pain-free. I would not hesitate to recommend GoLocalise – outstanding work at a good price.
They're reliable, adaptive and obsessed with quality. And while you can never be 100% guaranteed of perfection, you can be sure GoLocalise will go the extra mile to get it right every time. We've worked with them now for over 5 years and we are truly thankful to have such a strong localisation partner for our business.
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Most common questions
For most content, no. Standard Modern Greek serves both, and a single file works across the two markets. Cypriot Greek differs noticeably in speech and carries its own vocabulary, but written subtitling for Cyprus follows the standard. Where content is aimed specifically at a Cypriot audience and the register is informal, we will raise it.
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