Bengali Subtitles & Captions

Knockhundred offers a high-quality Bengali subtitling service to a variety of clients across a wide range of business sectors. In fact, we offer professional subtitling services in over 190 languages, including Bengali, for cinema, TV, online material, DVD, video, video games, computer games and corporate CD-ROMS.

We can provide captions and Bengali captioning services (including closed captions) for those people who are deaf or hard of hearing. These captions will usually contain descriptions of non-dialogue audio (such as laughter or a door slamming).

We also of course provide English subtitling services to a huge range of clients across the globe. Please refer to our languages page to see which languages we can handle.

The art of Bengali subtitling

Using subtitling software, we can provide subtitles in virtually any language including Bengali, and produce the end result in most industry-standard formats such as plain text, Word, HTML, Final Cut Pro XML, Spruce STL or Subrip (srt).

If you don't see the format you need, just ask, as we may still be able to help. The Bengali subtitlers will identify exact positions where each subtitle should appear and disappear. These markers are usually identified by precise time codes/frames dependent on the service you require.

The process of Bengali captioning

The process of captioning is much the same as for producing Bengali subtitles. The main difference is that the resulting Bengali captions will often contain descriptions of sound as well as a direct transcription of the speech.

Bengali transcription and translation for film and tv

We regularly translate film and documentary clips providing a finished transcription with time codes ready for Bengali subtitles to be created. We are more than happy to produce finished srt subtitle files if you'd prefer.

One-step media translation from video for Bengali subtitles

If your source video is in one language, for example English, and you require the subtitles to be in another, for example Bengali, our Bengali linguists will provide a direct translation into the relevant language and produce time-coded subtitles in a suitable format.

Bengali video SEO

Do you have an existing video in Bengali, or are you having one produced?  If you want consumers to find your video, please remember search engines can’t watch a video or listen to audio, but they do “understand” (and index) text.  This is why it is important to upload an aligned, accurate Bengali transcript to support your video content or to provide Bengali subtitles or captions.  This is how search engines will “hear” your video.

Rates

• Bengali subtitling rates start from £9.99 + VAT per source video minute
• Bengali same language transcription rates start from £3.99 per source audio/video minute
• Bengali language direct translation from audio/video rates start from £7.99 per source audio/video minute
• Please note these rates are a broad indication only. Minimum charges apply, and rates will vary depending on audio quality, number of speakers, subject matter, volume, etc.

Please note: VAT is chargeable for our UK clients. We are able to provide quotations in GB pounds, US Dollars or Euros.

Please refer to our Client Feedback page to learn more about the unbeatable Bengali transcription service we offer.

WHILE YOU’RE HERE... SOME QUITE INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE Bengali LANGUAGE

Bengali is an eastern Indo-Aryan language with around 300 million speakers mainly in Bangladesh, and in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and South Assam. Bengali is the national and official language of Bangladesh, and one of the official languages in India. It is also spoken in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. There are some differences in pronunciation and vocabulary between the Bengali of Bangladesh and the Bengali spoken in India. The Bengali alphabet is derived from the Brahmi alphabet. It is also closely related to the Devanagari alphabet, from which it started to diverge in the 11th Century AD. The current printed form of Bengali alphabet first appeared in 1778 when Charles Wilkins developed printing in Bengali. A few archaic letters were modernised during the 19th century.

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Bengali is often known as the second most beautiful language in the world after French.

Bengali SAMPLE TEXT

সর্বজনগ্রাহ্যতা : প্রবাদে সাধারণত এমন অভিজ্ঞতাই বাণীরূপ পায় যা সচরাচর সাধারণ মানুষের অভিজ্ঞতার জগৎ থেকে বাইরে নয়। প্রবাদের ভাবসত্যের জগৎ আমাদের সাধারণ অভিজ্ঞতার পরিম-লের মধ্যে থাকে বলে তা সর্বজনগ্রাহ্য হয়ে ওঠে।

Bengali example video

AND LASTLY, A Bengali PROVERB

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