For internal comms, HR & corporate teams
Localisation for internal communications and HR
The announcement lands in fourteen countries on Tuesday, or the rumour gets there first. We voice, subtitle and adapt internal video in 110 languages — every market on the same day, captions so nobody is left out, and no usage fee to pay on internal content.
110
Languages
30 min
Typical reply
2008
Doing this since
Why internal teams come to us
Your people are not your customers
Internal video gets treated as the easy version of marketing video, and it is the opposite. A campaign can go live in one market first. An announcement cannot — if Madrid hears it on Tuesday and Warsaw on Friday, Warsaw has already heard it from Madrid, badly, in a WhatsApp group.
And the register is different. A literal translation of a corporate English script reads like a legal notice in most languages, which is exactly the wrong tone for the message that is supposed to reassure people. Some of it has to be exact — policy, safety, anything HR will be held to. Some of it has to be human — the part where the CEO explains why. We treat those two as two different jobs, because they are.
What we localise
The video an internal team actually has to ship
Usually it is one recording in English, a date it has to be live, and a list of countries that will all read the subtitles anyway.
All-hands and town halls
Long recordings subtitled and transcribed so people can find their bit.
Leadership messages
The CEO piece, voiced or subtitled, in the register people will actually believe.
Onboarding and induction
The first week, the same everywhere, without a local manager re-explaining it.
Policy and compliance
Where the wording is checked line by line because someone will be held to it.
Health and safety
Briefings for sites and factory floors, captioned for noisy environments.
Benefits and enrolment
Seasonal, deadline-driven, and unforgiving if a number is wrong in one language.
Change and restructure
Handled under NDA, released everywhere at once, worded carefully.
Employer brand and careers
Recruitment film that sounds like the company people will actually join.
Intranet and LMS content
Delivered in the formats your platform ingests, not a folder of loose files.
What you get that a per-country scramble will not give you
The parts that matter when it is your own people
Recording fee only
No usage licence on internal content. What you see is the whole cost.
One go-live, every language
Delivered together, so no market hears it second-hand.
Accessible by default
Captions, SDH and transcripts quoted in, not added on.
The exact bits kept exact
Policy and safety wording checked line by line, with back-translation.
Confidential as standard
NDAs signed, own studios, nothing internal ever published.
One PM, one invoice
However many countries, one brief and one purchase order.
What makes internal work different
The four things that catch internal comms out
Internal video carries no usage fee. A voice over quote normally has two halves: the recording, and the licence to run it in a given medium, territory and period. Internal video, your intranet and your LMS sit outside that — you pay the recording fee only, from £400 for a studio hour. Plenty of internal teams budget as if they were buying an ad and either overshoot or drop the idea. They should not.
Everyone on the same day, or nobody. Simultaneous release is a scheduling problem, not a translation one: scripts adapted in parallel, voices booked for the same window, and every language delivered together rather than trickling in. Tell us the hour it goes live and we work back from it.
The colleagues who cannot hear it. Some of your workforce has hearing loss, and far more are watching at a hot desk with no headphones or on a factory floor. Captions and SDH are not a courtesy, and a transcript is what lets someone search a forty-minute town hall for the two minutes about their site. We include both in the quote rather than leaving them as an upsell.
It is not public yet. Results before they are announced, a restructure before it is told, a product before launch. NDAs are routine here, our studios are our own rather than booked by the hour, and nothing internal goes into our portfolio. That is the same standard we apply to embargoed client work.
Announcement going out in several countries?
Tell us the running time, the languages and the hour it has to be live. We will come back with an itemised quote — and internal video carries no usage fee, so it is usually less than people expect.
How it works
From one recording to every office
Send the video and the go-live
The date it has to be visible is the thing we plan backwards from.
We adapt and you approve
Scripts adapted per market, with back-translation where the wording is sensitive.
Record, caption and transcribe
Voices where you want them, captions and transcripts on everything.
Every language delivered together
In your platform's formats, ready for the hour you named.
Everything under one roof
What we can take off your hands
Voice over
Native voices in 110 languages, recording fee only for internal use.
Subtitling & captions
Subtitles, closed captions and SDH for every market.
Transcription
Searchable transcripts of town halls and long recordings.
Translation
Policy, script and on-screen text by native linguists.
e-Learning localisation
When the content is a course rather than an announcement.
Every language
The full list, with what we do in each one.
Most common questions
Do we have to pay a usage fee for internal video?
No. Internal, corporate and intranet use normally carries no usage fee at all — you pay the recording fee, from £400 for a studio hour, and that is the cost. Usage fees apply to advertising and broadcast, where the licence covers a medium, a territory and a period. If some of the same content will later be used publicly, tell us up front and we will licence that part properly rather than retrofitting it.
Can every country get it on the same day?
Yes, and it is the thing we plan the schedule around. Scripts are adapted in parallel rather than one after another, voices are booked for the same window, and everything is delivered together. Tell us the hour it goes live and we work back from there.
Do you caption and transcribe as well?
Yes, and we quote them in rather than treating them as an upsell. Captions and SDH so colleagues with hearing loss and anyone without headphones can follow it, and a transcript so somebody can search a forty-minute town hall for the two minutes that concern their site. Transcription is £8 a minute for English and £10 for other languages, with a £150 minimum.
How do you handle wording that has to be exact?
Policy, safety and anything HR will be held to gets treated differently from the narrative parts: translated closely, checked line by line, and given back to you with a back-translation so your local HR or legal contact can sign it off without you having to take our word for it.
Is confidentiality a problem for pre-announcement material?
No. NDAs are routine, the studios are our own rather than booked by the hour, and nothing internal goes into our portfolio or our case studies. Embargoed material is normal work here.
Is this the same as e-learning localisation?
No, and the difference is worth keeping. e-Learning is structured course content with modules, assessments and an authoring tool behind it — that lives on our e-learning localisation page. This page is for announcements, town halls, onboarding and policy: shorter, more frequent, and usually tied to a date.
What formats do you deliver for our intranet or LMS?
Whatever the platform ingests — video with burned-in subtitles or separate SRT/VTT tracks, audio stems, and transcripts as text or document files. Tell us the platform and we will match its spec rather than handing you a folder to convert.
How quickly do you reply?
Over 50% of enquiries get a reply within 30 minutes during UK office hours, and an itemised quote normally comes back within four working hours. If a go-live date has moved, call +44 207 095 5730 rather than emailing.
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Tell us the date it has to be live
Running time, languages and the hour it goes out is enough to quote. We will come back with an itemised figure — normally within four working hours.
Professional voice over services for your audio and video productions
Voice over
- State-of-the-art studios
- Neumann microphones
- On-hand sound engineers
- 1,000+ voice actors
Translation
- 100+ languages covered
- Tailored to your needs
- Stringent quality control
- Dedicated project managers
Subtitling
- Experienced subtitlers
- Industry-standard software
- Burn-in and graphic editing
- Open and closed captions
Transcription
- Improve accessibility
- Reach a wider audience
- Boost SEO and video views
- Maximise video engagement