Kannada translation services

Kannada translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with checking your material against Karnataka's language act 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 Kannada linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, checking terminology and consistency and confirming that every piece marked for Kannada at the brief has been translated rather than left in English.

Yes — Kannada translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary throughout, so the Kannada on a product, in its instructional video and in the voice-over says the same thing in the same words.

It may. Karnataka's Kannada Language Comprehensive Development Act, 2022 covers, among other things, product names and directions for use for goods made and sold in the state, advertising boards and public notices, banks' communication with the public and material for government-funded projects. We check your material against it at the brief and tell you what it appears to cover; the legal decision remains yours.

For the categories where the act uses that wording, Kannada should lead rather than sit as a translation underneath the English, and business signboards must give Kannada 60 % of the space. In practice it changes the order and size of on-screen text and captions, which is why we raise it before the English layout is fixed.

Yes — audiovisual is our specialisation. We deliver spotted SRT/VTT and timed two-column voice-over scripts, plus translated text when you need it.

Usually, yes. Kannada typed in a font-based encoding rather than Unicode displays correctly only with the original font installed, and it cannot be searched or reused reliably. A native linguist converts it to Unicode and checks the result before it goes into your glossary or translation memory.

It can be, particularly in voice-over and dialogue, where natural speech differs from the written standard and varies across the state. We write subtitles and on-screen text in standard written Kannada, and agree at the brief how colloquial and how local the voice-over script should sound.

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.