Slovak subtitling services

Only up to a point. Most automatic wrapping looks for a vowel to decide where a syllable ends, and Slovak has syllables with no vowel at all — vlk, prst, krk, štvrť. A tool that splits those in the middle produces something no Slovak reader parses as a word. We let a tool propose the break and a native subtitler confirm or move it before the file is timed.

No, that is normal Slovak. The letters r and l can carry a syllable on their own, which is why perfectly ordinary words are spelled without any vowel. Long versions of the same letters, ŕ and ĺ, do the same job and are always syllabic. Nothing has been lost in transfer; the file is intact and the word is spelled the way the dictionary spells it.

It affects condensing. Slovak does not allow one long syllable to follow another inside the same word, so if two would meet, the second gets shortened. That removes some of the shorter word forms a translator might otherwise reach for to bring a line under the limit. It is why cutting a Slovak cue is a rewriting job rather than a trimming job, and why we hand it to a native speaker.

Adapted, yes; relabelled, no. The two languages are close in appearance and a reused file reads as a reused file very quickly. The rhythmic rule is one of the clearest dividing lines, and Czech has no equivalent of it — it changes word endings all the way through a script. Starting from your Czech file is usually the economical route, but it is editorial work by a Slovak linguist.

Rates open at £18 per minute of running video. The figure moves with how long the video is, whether we type the audio up before spotting, whether you need an accessibility version or a burnt-in master, and how many formats are on the delivery list. Each job is quoted on its own and the Price Match Promise sits behind the number.

Regularly. Slovak audio gets Slovak captions and SDH, with speaker labels and the non-dialogue sound a viewer would otherwise miss. It is what an accessibility review looks for and what a muted social feed needs to work at all. Same-language files get the same break-point checking as translated ones, because the line limit does not care where the text came from.

Yes, and it usually shortens the job. We spot your transcript or SRT against the video, then re-cut any line that runs over the limit — which is where most inherited Slovak files need attention, since breaks made for a page are not breaks made for a two-line box. With no transcript, our team types the audio up here first and the same QA follows.

Yes. SRT, VTT, STL and TTML go straight into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Media Composer and the browser editors the platforms provide. One thing worth flagging: some upload tools re-wrap long cues to their own width and discard our breaks. Tell us the destination and we will size the lines for it, or deliver a burnt-in master so nothing can move.