Latvian subtitling services

It changes the word. The bar over a, e, i and u marks vowel length, and length is what separates one word from another: pile is a drop, pīle is a duck; koka means made of wood, kokā means up the tree. In running prose the sentence usually rescues the reader. In a caption on screen for two seconds there is nothing to rescue it with, so the mark has to be there.

The font. Latvian needs eleven letters beyond plain Latin, and typefaces sold as covering Europe often carry č, š and ž, which many languages use, while missing ģ, ķ, ļ and ņ, which almost nobody else needs. Tell us where the file will be played and we will deliver something that renders there, or supply a burnt-in version if the environment cannot be relied on.

It is a comma, and its position is worth knowing because it catches typesetters out. On capitals and on ķ, ļ and ņ it sits under the letter. On the lowercase ģ it goes above, so that it does not collide with the descender. Fonts that draw it in the wrong place, or hang a cedilla there instead, look subtly foreign to a Latvian reader, and we check for it before delivery.

Yes, and it arrives that way often. Latvian is typed without marks in everyday messaging, and automatic transcription hands back the same flattened text. Restoring the marks is editorial rather than mechanical, because the right letter depends on the word and sometimes on the case ending. A native Latvian subtitler does it, and it is included in the work rather than billed alongside it.

It starts at £18 per minute of running video. The things that move it are length, whether we transcribe before translating, whether you need SDH or a burnt-in master, and how many output formats leave with the job. Every project gets its own itemised quote so you can see where the money goes, and the Price Match Promise stands behind the figure.

Yes. Translated Latvian subtitles are one service, Latvian captions and SDH over Latvian audio are another, and we deliver both. Same-language work covers accessibility requirements and makes a muted social feed usable, and it gets the same font check as a translated file — the marked letters have to render wherever the caption is going to play.

Send it over. We spot and time against your file, and the first thing we look at is whether the marked letters survived the last save — inherited Latvian subtitle files very often arrive with macrons stripped or commas replaced. Without a file we start from the Latvian audio and build the transcript here. Either route runs through the same linguistic and technical QA.

Yes. SRT, VTT, STL and TTML open in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Media Composer and the online editors. Worth knowing: the preview font inside an editor is not the font your audience gets, so text that looks correct on your timeline can still fail downstream. If you would rather not depend on that at all, we burn the subtitles into a finished MP4 or MOV.