Knockhundred News

We’ve been working closely with one of our regular clients to produce transcripts of climate research interviews. The interviews were conducted in Japan, but contain a mix of Japanese and English. Our client needed English transcripts only. This always presents a challenge, but it’s not Mission Impossible!

We’ve been working in close collaboration with a major German pharmaceutical company over the last few weeks. Our client has been conducting extensive interviews with a select group of patients, to evaluate the efficacy of their treatment plans. The interviews (9 hours in total) have been transcribed in German and translated into English too.

We work with multiple linguists, all with their own areas of specialisation. This week we’ve been talking with Sonia, who often produces one-step translations (or ‘direct translations’) for Knockhundred. Here’s an abridged transcript of our interview.

We’ve been working with an independent UK-based production company, making a fascinating documentary series on religion in India. Over the last few weeks the film crew have been learning a huge amount about Hinduism, exploring the deities of the Hindu pantheon, visiting religious sites and meeting ascetics (sadhus). We’ve received hours of raw footage and have then been producing direct translations from Hindu into English for the client.

We’ve been working on a number of unusual and thought-provoking translation projects recently. One of our major clients recently conducted in-depth research into possible climate-change solutions and we’ve been heavily involved in the translation of their research findings.

Sometimes our clients contact us to ask for “Chinese” subtitles. What they don’t perhaps realise is that Chinese isn’t a language, but a family of languages.

We’ve been working on a huge number of subtitling assignments over the past few months and have been streamlining our processes so we can produce accurate subtitles in record time. It’s not an easy process, but we have an amazing team and are perfecting the ‘art’ of subtitling! 

We receive requests for interpreters on an almost daily basis. Their lives are busy and the jobs are varied. We asked Malgorzata to tells us all about Polish interpreting in West Yorkshire.

We wanted to learn more about the challenges of creating Spanish subtitles, and so we caught up with Rosa, an experienced subtitler.

We provide a French subtitling service for a whole host of different industries. They are provided not only for French speakers wishing to watch foreign language material, but for the Deaf and hard of hearing in France.

One of our regular Italian subtitlers, Gianfranco, chatted to us about his life subtitling social media videos.

It’s the question that every Project Manager expects to hear, sometimes several times a day. We have the documents, or the audio files, or the videos. We’ve prepared the perfect quotation and we have a particular linguist (or linguists!) in mind for this project… Then the big question - how long will it take?