Subtitling · Hebrew
Hebrew subtitling services
Native Hebrew subtitlers for corporate video, eLearning, documentary, streaming content, and advertising. Right-to-left handling built in, delivered to platform specification. Part of a full Hebrew language service: subtitles, voice over scripts, and translation of any content you need.
About Hebrew subtitling
Hebrew subtitles that behave correctly in the player
Hebrew runs right to left, and that single fact accounts for most of what goes wrong in Hebrew subtitling.
Line breaks, punctuation placement, and the ordering of a line all follow different rules, and the moment a number, a brand name, or a technical term in Latin script appears inside a Hebrew line, the file becomes bidirectional.
At GoLocalise, we work with native Hebrew subtitlers and test files in the environment they are going to play in rather than assuming they will render correctly.
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 ordering decision away from the player entirely.
- Always visible
- Bidirectional ordering 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 Hebrew subtitles or same-language Hebrew captions and SDH — in whichever form your platform and audience require.
What we subtitle
Hebrew subtitling for every kind of content
Hebrew subtitling clusters around broadcast, corporate and social work, each shaped by right-to-left layout and on-screen text. These are the formats we subtitle 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 the player or platform the file has to work in.
Template and translation
Where needed, we create an English subtitle template first, then send it to a native Hebrew subtitler.
Timing and quality checks
Subtitles are timed against the video and checked for reading speed, line length, right-to-left handling, and format compliance.
Delivery and display check
Files are delivered in the format you need, confirmed to display in the correct order.
Our standards
The specs we work to
Readable subtitles are a matter of measurable limits, not opinion. These are the defaults we apply to Hebrew unless your style guide says otherwise.
Maximum per line
37 for broadcast delivery
Maximum on screen
Right-to-left, bottom-weighted
Reading speed
Lower for children's content
Minimum duration
Seven seconds maximum
The limits are the straightforward part. When Latin characters, numbers, or punctuation sit inside a right-to-left line, the player has to decide how to order them, and implementations differ. The file itself may be correct while one particular player renders it wrongly, which is why we test against the target environment and flag anything that will not survive it.
Deliverables
Professional subtitle formats
We adapt your existing translations into subtitle format or create subtitles from scratch, in Hebrew, 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, ordering included.
Need a different format? Convert SRT, VTT and more with our free subtitle converter →
Hebrew specifics
No vowels, and the English words in the middle
Hebrew is written without vowels in normal use. Vowel marks exist but are omitted outside religious texts, poetry, and material for learners, which means the reader resolves ambiguity from context. For a subtitler, this affects word choice, since a phrasing that is momentarily ambiguous on screen costs the viewer time they do not have.
Mixed Hebrew and English content comes up constantly in technical, corporate, and academic material, where product names and terminology stay in English. It is the most common source of display problems, so we handle the ordering explicitly rather than leaving it to the player to work out.
The two together are why automatic tools do poorly here. Recognition accuracy is lower than for major European languages, the absence of written vowels removes information the software would otherwise use, and right-to-left rendering compounds the problem at the output stage. Every file we deliver is produced and checked by a native Hebrew subtitler.
Since 2008
Subtitling & captioning
100+
Languages covered
ISO 9001 & 14001
Certified processes
In-house
Subtitling team & studios
Subtitling rates
Professional Hebrew subtitling
For single videos and straightforward content where accurate, well-timed subtitles are what you need.
- Native Hebrew subtitler
- Bidirectional ordering handled
- 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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The rest of your Hebrew project
Most common questions
Bidirectional text is the usual cause. When Latin characters, numbers, or punctuation sit inside a right to left line, the player has to decide how to order them, and implementations differ. The file itself may be correct while one particular player renders it wrongly. We test against the target environment and flag anything that will not survive it.
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- Experienced subtitlers
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