Welsh subtitling services

Because Welsh mutates the first letter depending on what precedes it. Cymru, Gymru, Nghymru and Chymru are all the same word in different grammatical positions, and each one is correct where it stands. A reviewer comparing a subtitle file against a term list will see four spellings and may flag three of them; a native subtitler will tell you they are the same entry.

The nasal one does. It adds letters instead of exchanging them, so c becomes ngh and the word arrives two characters longer than the dictionary form, while the trigger in front of it may grow as well. The soft mutation can go the other way and lose a letter. Over a whole file it matters, and it is one of the things we count when a line is close to the limit.

Not reliably, and this is where automated terminology work tends to fail in Welsh. Searching for the radical form misses every mutated instance, and replacing it blindly writes an unmutated word into a position that requires the change. Updating a term across a file is done by someone who knows which form belongs where, which is why we handle glossaries as editorial work rather than a script.

Standard written Welsh by default, which is what the streaming style guides ask for and what reads naturally across the whole of Wales. Regional forms are used where the content needs them, typically to keep characters distinct from one another in drama. If your organisation works to Welsh Language Standards and has its own house style, we follow that instead.

It starts at £18 per minute of video. The figure depends on running time, on whether we transcribe the Welsh audio first, on SDH or a burnt-in master, and on how many output formats you need at the end. Checking mutation and terminology is part of the linguistic QA rather than an add-on. Every project is quoted individually with our Price Match Promise.

Yes, and a lot of our Welsh work is exactly that. Same-language Welsh captions and SDH serve accessibility obligations and muted social video, and because there is no translation step the craft sits in spotting, condensing and choosing the break. Getting a spoken mutation onto the page in its written form is part of that, not something a transcript can settle on its own.

Certainly. We spot and time from what you send and read it against the audio, which is usually where the differences show up, since a script written for narration often carries different mutations from what is actually said. If there is no script we transcribe the Welsh audio first. Either route ends with the same linguistic and technical QA.

All the common ones. We deliver SRT, VTT, STL and TTML that carry Welsh diacritics and the line breaks we chose into Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve and the major online editors — or burnt into the picture as a finished MP4/MOV, so nothing downstream gets to rewrap a mutated phrase for you.