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Subtitling · Uzbek

Uzbek subtitling services

Uzbek subtitling by native linguists, for induction film, product video, documentary, broadcast and paid social. Oʻ and gʻ reach the screen as the standard writes them, and one spelling holds across the whole title. Uzbek subtitles, voice over scripts and translation all sit inside one project.

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 Uzbek subtitling

One letter, several characters, and more than ten spellings

Two letters of the Uzbek Latin alphabet are written with a mark after the vowel or consonant: oʻ and gʻ. The mark is not decoration and it is not punctuation — the pair works as a single letter each, and the standard gives it a specific character, U+02BB. A separate mark at U+02BC does an unrelated job inside loanwords, which is the first place the two get mixed up.

Neither character is on an ordinary keyboard, so almost nobody types them. What arrives instead is a straight mark, a curly one, or one of several near neighbours, and the same word reaches us spelled more than ten ways. Uzbekistan's own senators put that figure on the record this month: search engines, glossaries and QA tools read those spellings as different words, so nothing matches anything.

At GoLocalise, we work with native Uzbek subtitlers, normalise every variant to the character the standard names before the file goes anywhere near QA, and hold one spelling from the first cue to the last. Where you supply a house style that says otherwise, yours wins and we apply it consistently.

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Our in-house subtitlers working on Uzbek 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 Uzbek the spelling is settled at delivery, with nothing downstream able to swap a character.

  • Always visible
  • Spelling 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 Uzbek subtitles or same-language Uzbek captions and SDH — in whichever form your platform and audience require.

What we subtitle

Uzbek subtitling for every kind of content

Manufacturers and energy companies staffing sites around the country, banks and telecoms with consumer video, institutional programmes: those are the usual sources of an Uzbek brief. The formats below account for most of it.

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

Your footage, who it is for, and the character your house style wants standing in oʻ and gʻ, settled in writing before a word of Uzbek is produced.

2

Template and translation

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

3

Timing and quality checks

Cues spotted to picture, then read for pace and length, with a pass that leaves one and only one character standing in every oʻ and gʻ in the file.

4

Delivery and display check

Your formats, handed over after the marks have been confirmed in the destination font rather than assumed to have travelled.

Our standards

The specs we work to

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

42characters

Maximum per line

Every mark counts against the 42

2lines

Maximum on screen

Centred and weighted to the bottom

17chars/sec

Reading speed

13 for children's programming

1second

Minimum duration

Seven seconds at the far end

These are house figures, since no platform has published an Uzbek guide, and yours override them wherever the two disagree. One quirk is worth knowing before you plan a line. A reader sees oʻ and gʻ as single letters, but each takes two of the 42, so a cue thick with them measures longer than it looks on screen. We count what is in the file.

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Deliverables

Professional subtitle formats

We adapt your existing translations into subtitle format or create subtitles from scratch, in Uzbek, 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, marks 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.

Uzbek specifics

The reform that takes the character out of the alphabet

On 10 September 2026 Uzbekistan's Senate approved a 28-letter alphabet in place of the current 26, and the reason given is the problem on this page. Oʻ becomes Ö and gʻ becomes Ğ, with sh and ch replaced by ş and ç. The law still needs the president's signature, and the changeover is staged: schoolbooks move first and the rest follows over the years after.

Until then, both spellings will be in circulation, and so will the reason the mark goes missing in the first place. Uzbek has been officially written in Latin since 1992, but Cyrillic never left — signage, advertising and a large share of published material still use it, and text that has been round-tripped between the two scripts loses the modifier somewhere in the middle. That is the state of the source files we receive.

Around 36 million people speak Uzbek, most of them in Uzbekistan, with substantial communities in the neighbouring republics and in Afghanistan. Our position on all of this is simple: we deliver the alphabet your project is publishing in today, and we can deliver the 28-letter version the day your style guide calls for it.

Since 2008

Subtitling & captioning

100+

Languages covered

ISO 9001 & 14001

Certified processes

24–48h

Typical turnaround

Subtitling rates

Professional Uzbek subtitling

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Standard

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

  • Native Uzbek subtitler
  • oʻ and gʻ normalised
  • 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 Uzbek 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

Most common questions

Which character should oʻ and gʻ use in our Uzbek subtitles?

The one the standard names, U+02BB, unless your house style says otherwise. Oʻ and gʻ are letters rather than a vowel with something added, and the mark that completes them has its own character. A separate one, U+02BC, belongs inside loanwords and does an unrelated job. We set the choice at the brief, write it into the project glossary and apply it everywhere.

Uzbekistan approved a new alphabet in September 2026. Does that change our files?

Not yet, and we will tell you when it does. The Senate approved a 28-letter version that replaces oʻ and gʻ with ö and ğ, and sh and ch with ş and ç, but it still needs the president's signature and the changeover is staged over several years. We keep delivering what your project publishes in today, and we can produce the new alphabet as soon as you want it.

Our Uzbek QA keeps flagging the same word as two different words. Why?

Because it is two different words as far as the tool is concerned. If one cue writes a straight mark, another a curly one and a third the proper character, a search, a glossary check or a terminology pass has no way to see them as a match. That is the practical cost of the variation, and normalising it before QA runs is what makes the rest of the checks worth anything.

Our Uzbek file came back with straight marks all the way through. Can you correct it?

Yes, and it is routine work. Replacing them is not a blanket find and replace, because the character standing in for oʻ and gʻ is not the character standing in for the mark inside a loanword, and the two need separating word by word. A native Uzbek subtitler does that pass, then the file goes through the same timing and technical QA as anything else.

What does Uzbek subtitling cost per minute?

It starts at £20 for each minute of running video. Duration is the biggest variable, followed by whether a transcript has to be produced first, whether the order includes an accessibility version or a burnt-in master, and how many formats you want out the other end. Normalising the spelling and holding it across a series comes with the rate. Quotes arrive broken down, with the Price Match Promise attached.

The footage is already Uzbek. Do you caption rather than translate?

Yes, that is a steady part of our Uzbek work. Same-language captions and SDH give you the dialogue with speaker labels and the sounds a viewer cannot hear, which is what an accessibility review checks for. The spelling pass on this page applies identically, and in practice it matters more on a same-language file, because that text has usually come from an Uzbek keyboard rather than a translator's.

We have an Uzbek SRT already. Is it worth sending?

Definitely send it. Our subtitlers spot it to picture and rebuild the lines, and the opening move is a sweep of every oʻ and gʻ in the file, since an inherited document almost never uses one character from start to finish. That sweep is also the fastest way to tell how carefully the file was made. Where nothing exists, we transcribe the Uzbek audio here.

Do your Uzbek files import cleanly into an edit?

They do, in SRT, VTT, STL or TTML, into Premiere, Resolve, Final Cut, Avid and the caption editors the platforms provide. The risk to watch for sits elsewhere: any tool in the chain that tidies typography when it saves is capable of turning the correct character into a lookalike without telling anyone. A burnt-in master removes that possibility if the chain is long.

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