Tagalog translation services

Tagalog translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with building the borrowed-term glossary 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 Tagalog linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, checking that every English term follows the spelling agreed in the glossary rather than appearing two ways in one deliverable.

Yes — Tagalog translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary throughout, so the subtitles, the script and the on-screen text spell every borrowed term the same way.

It depends on the term. The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino respells some new borrowings, such as selfi and projektor, keeps others as they are, such as visa and level, and advises against respelling when the result looks odd, reads worse or is less familiar than the English. We go through your key terms with you at the brief and fix each one.

Because the viewer sees it. A course or app that says projector on one screen and projektor on the next looks unedited, and the inconsistency spreads into every verb built on the term — mag-makeup against magmeyk-ap. It is cheap to settle in the glossary and expensive to fix across a finished project.

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

Yes, and it is the best starting point. We check it against the source for terms it does not cover, propose a spelling for each one in line with the KWF criteria, and agree them with you before translation starts.

Filipino is the national language under the 1987 Constitution, and Tagalog is the language most spoken at home in the Philippines. For most written projects the two names describe the same deliverable, and we write it to the national orthography of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino.

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.