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Subtitler timing Turkish subtitles against video in GoLocalise's London studio

Subtitling · Turkish

Turkish subtitling services

Corporate video, eLearning, documentary, broadcast and advertising, subtitled by native Turkish linguists. The dotted and dotless i survive all the way to the screen, and the file matches the spec your platform publishes. Turkish subtitles, voice over scripts and translation, all in one place.

Native-speaking subtitlers
SDH & closed captions
ISO 9001 & ISO 14001
Burnt-in or separate files
In-house subtitling team
Native-speaking subtitlers
SDH & closed captions
ISO 9001 & ISO 14001
Burnt-in or separate files
In-house subtitling team

About Turkish subtitling

The one language where changing case can change the word

Turkish has four i's, not two: a dotted i and a dotted İ, and a dotless ı and a dotless I. They form two separate pairs, and which uppercase letter a lowercase one becomes depends on the software knowing it is reading Turkish. Set to English, the same conversion produces the other letter.

That makes capitalisation destructive rather than cosmetic. Forced narratives, on-screen signage and shouted dialogue are routinely set in capitals, and an editor's uppercase button, a stylesheet rule or a QA script that folds case to spot duplicates will quietly swap ı for i — and going back down does not undo it.

At GoLocalise, we work with native Turkish subtitlers, treat case as part of the spelling rather than as formatting, and keep the circumflexes that tell kâr from kar where the meaning depends on them.

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Our in-house subtitlers working on Turkish files
GoLocalise subtitling and localisation team at work in the London studio
Inside our London studio — where our in-house subtitling team times, spots and quality-checks every file.

Which do you need?

Open captions, closed captions or SDH

Three different deliverables that people often ask for by the wrong name. Here is the short version.

Open captions

Burnt in

Subtitles burnt permanently into the picture. Nobody can switch them off, which is exactly what you want for social feeds that autoplay muted — and in Turkish it settles the letters at delivery, before anything downstream can re-case them.

  • Always visible
  • Letter forms fixed at delivery
  • Delivered as a finished video file

Closed captions

Switchable

A separate file the viewer can turn on and off, and that can carry several languages at once. The standard for YouTube, Vimeo and the streaming platforms.

  • Viewer controls them
  • Multiple languages from one video
  • Indexed by search engines

SDH

Accessibility

Subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing: dialogue plus speaker IDs and the sound effects and music cues that carry meaning.

  • Speaker identification
  • Non-dialogue audio described
  • Meets accessibility requirements

Subtitles or captions? The two terms are often used interchangeably. Strictly, subtitles translate the dialogue for viewers who can hear the audio, while captions are same-language and add speaker labels and sound cues for viewers who cannot. We produce either — translated Turkish subtitles or same-language Turkish captions and SDH — in whichever form your platform and audience require.

What we subtitle

Turkish subtitling for every kind of content

Turkish subtitling spans a large domestic broadcast and drama industry with a big export audience, alongside corporate and eLearning work for a manufacturing and services economy — so the same file often has to satisfy a broadcaster's spec and a streaming platform's. These are the formats we handle most.

Corporate & training video

Internal comms, onboarding and product training subtitled for global teams and LMS delivery.

eLearning & online courses

Timed, readable subtitles for course platforms, MOOCs and instructional video.

Documentary & factual

Festival, broadcast and streaming documentaries, including interview clean-up and on-screen text.

Advertising & social

Burnt-in captions for muted autoplay on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and paid social.

Streaming & OTT

Platform-spec subtitle and caption files for VOD, OTT and broadcast delivery.

Accessibility (SDH & closed captions)

Same-language SDH and closed captions to meet WCAG and accessibility requirements.

Events, webinars & conferences

Recorded talks, town halls and webinars captioned for on-demand viewing.

E-commerce & product video

Short product and explainer videos captioned to lift conversion and reach.

How can we help you?

Your project manager has everything covered

One point of contact from brief to delivery, and both a linguistic and a technical check on every file.

1

Brief review

We review your video, your audience and the player, including where the file will be re-cased, re-encoded or re-styled after it leaves us.

2

Template and translation

Where needed, we create an English subtitle template first, then send it to a native Turkish subtitler.

3

Timing and quality checks

Subtitles are timed against the video and checked for reading speed, line length, correct dotted and dotless i throughout, and format compliance.

4

Delivery and display check

Files delivered in the format you need, with capitals and circumflexes confirmed in the destination player rather than assumed.

Our standards

The specs we work to

Readable subtitles are a matter of measurable limits, not opinion. These are the defaults we apply to Turkish unless your style guide says otherwise.

42characters

Maximum per line

37 for broadcast delivery

2lines

Maximum on screen

Bottom-weighted, centred

17chars/sec

Reading speed

13 for children's content

1second

Minimum duration

Seven seconds maximum

Turkish builds meaning by stacking suffixes onto a stem, so a clause that English spreads across five words can arrive as one long, unbreakable token. The subtitler works to fit the meaning inside the character limit rather than pushing reading speed past what a viewer can follow. Condensing, not overflowing, is the job.

Try our free subtitle reading-speed (CPS) checker →

Deliverables

Professional subtitle formats

We adapt your existing translations into subtitle format or create subtitles from scratch, in Turkish, English or any other language. And if the project needs a timed script or a plain document instead, we deliver that too.

Standard text-based

SRTVTTSSAASSSUB

Compatible with most platforms and players.

Broadcast & professional

STLTTMLDFXPCAPPAC

For broadcasters, post houses and streaming delivery specs.

Burnt-in video

MP4MOVProRes

A finished file with the subtitles baked into the picture, letter forms included.

Need a different format? Convert SRT, VTT and more with our free subtitle converter →

Where it's goingWhat we deliver
YouTube, Vimeo & LMS platformsSRT or VTT closed captions
Netflix, Amazon & broadcastIMSC, TTML or EBU-STL to platform spec
Instagram, TikTok & paid socialBurned-in captions in MP4 (open captions)
Premiere, Final Cut & DaVinci ResolveSRT / VTT that import straight into your edit

Not sure which you need? Tell us the destination platform and we deliver to its exact spec.

Turkish specifics

Where the letters go wrong, and the one mark you cannot drop

The failure is famous enough to have a name among developers, and it has caused real damage well beyond subtitling. The rule is simple and the consequence is not: only software told it is handling Turkish converts the four i's correctly, and everything else silently normalises them to the English pair. Because uppercase I and uppercase İ both exist, nothing looks broken until a Turkish reader sees it.

The second thing to know is the circumflex. Turkish uses â, î and û to separate words that are otherwise spelled the same, and a pipeline that strips accents to make filenames safe takes the distinction with it. Netflix's Turkish subtitling guide makes the mark mandatory for exactly that reason. The same guide asks for an apostrophe before suffixes attached to unadapted foreign words — Bluetooth'u, selfie'ler — which is another mark that autocorrect likes to move or delete.

One neighbouring detail worth naming, because it is the source of a common mix-up: ş with a cedilla is correct in Turkish and wrong in Romanian, which needs a comma below. Older code pages treated the two as one character, so a file can pass a check aimed at the wrong language and still be wrong.

Since 2008

Subtitling & captioning

100+

Languages covered

ISO 9001 & 14001

Certified processes

24–48h

Typical turnaround

Subtitling rates

Professional Turkish subtitling

from £18 per minuteSee full subtitling rates →
Standard

For single videos and straightforward content where accurate, well-timed subtitles are what you need.

  • Native Turkish subtitler
  • Dotted and dotless i preserved
  • Frame-accurate timing
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Full production

For longer content and recurring projects, including transcription, SDH, burned-in subtitles and multiple output formats.

  • Everything in Standard
  • Transcription and template
  • SDH and burnt-in
  • Multiple output formats
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Every project is quoted individually and backed by our Price Match Promise. Send us your video for an exact, no-obligation quote.

Not sure what your Turkish subtitles will cost?

Send us the video — or just its running time — and we come back with an itemised quote: running time, languages and output formats priced line by line, with nothing hidden. No obligation, and if you find a like-for-like price lower, we will match it.

  • Free, itemised quote
  • No obligation
  • Price Match Promise

Trusted by global brands

We have used GoLocalise on a regular basis for projects in a number of languages. The service we receive is great. The team is always friendly and professional. The voiceovers we receive are of a very high quality and the turnaround is extremely quick. We are very happy to recommend GoLocalise to other businesses.
Jo SamuelAnimator at Pixel Circus
It was a pleasure to work with David and the team at GoLocalise. David gave me lots of help and advice, guiding me through my first subtitling project. He really knows his stuff! The experience was completely pain-free. I would not hesitate to recommend GoLocalise – outstanding work at a good price.
Kerry GilliesDirector at Synergy Language Services
They're reliable, adaptive and obsessed with quality. And while you can never be 100% guaranteed of perfection, you can be sure GoLocalise will go the extra mile to get it right every time. We've worked with them now for over 5 years and we are truly thankful to have such a strong localisation partner for our business.
Lucas ColeSales and Marketing Director at Epipheo

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Most common questions

Why do Turkish subtitles sometimes come back with the wrong i?

Because Turkish has four i's and most software assumes two. The dotted i pairs with a dotted İ and the dotless ı pairs with an undotted I, and only a tool that knows it is handling Turkish converts them correctly. Anything else turns ı into i on the way back down from capitals. We treat case as part of the spelling and check it before delivery.

Can you deliver Turkish subtitles in all capitals for on-screen signage?

Yes, and it is worth asking for rather than doing it downstream. Capitalising Turkish correctly means knowing which of the two i-pairs each letter belongs to, so we set the uppercase version ourselves instead of leaving it to a stylesheet or an editing tool that will normalise it to English rules.

Do the circumflexes on â, î and û really matter in subtitles?

Yes. They separate words that are otherwise spelled identically, so dropping them is not a cosmetic loss — it changes what the line says. Pipelines that strip accents for safe filenames or legacy encoding are the usual culprit, and we check the marks have survived rather than assuming.

How do you handle very long Turkish words in a subtitle line?

By condensing. Turkish stacks suffixes onto a stem, so a whole English clause can arrive as a single token that cannot be broken across two lines. The subtitler rewrites to fit the meaning inside the character limit rather than pushing the reading speed past what a viewer can comfortably follow.

How much does Turkish subtitling cost?

Turkish subtitling starts at £18 per minute of video. The rest of the figure comes from running time, from transcription where no script exists, from SDH or a burned-in version, and from how many formats you want delivered. Each project is quoted on its own, with the Price Match Promise behind it.

Do you also add same-language Turkish captions, not just translated subtitles?

Yes. We translate into Turkish and we caption in Turkish, SDH included — two separate jobs, both core work here. If the footage already speaks Turkish and what you need is accurate on-screen text for accessibility or a muted feed, that is Turkish captioning, and it is exactly what we do.

Do you need the video, or can you work from our Turkish transcript?

Send it across. We spot and time from your transcript or SRT, checking first that the Turkish letters came through the last save, or the last re-casing, unharmed. With no transcript, we transcribe the Turkish audio ourselves. Both routes carry the same linguistic and technical QA.

Which editing software do your Turkish subtitle files import into?

Every common format. Turkish SRT, VTT, STL and TTML keep ı, İ and the circumflexes intact and open in Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the main online editors. Would you rather not handle a separate file? We burn them into a finished MP4 or MOV, and the viewer's font stops mattering.

What do you need from us to quote Turkish subtitling?

Less than people expect: the video, or a link to it, its running time, which platform or broadcaster it is going to, and the date you need it by. A rough cut is fine — we would rather quote on what exists than wait for picture lock and lose a week of your schedule. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.

How quickly will we hear back, and who will we be dealing with?

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.

We are still pitching and the budget is not signed off. Can we still get a Turkish quote?

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.

What if we find a cheaper Turkish quote somewhere else?

Send it over. Our Price Match Promise covers like-for-like work, and because our quotes are itemised you can see exactly what is being compared — which is usually where the gap turns out to be, in a revision pass, a licence or a delivery format that the cheaper figure quietly left out. If it really is the same work for less, we match it.

Ready to subtitle your video in Turkish?

Send us your video and we'll come back with an exact, itemised quote.

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