Knockhundred News

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?

We often receive calls from private individuals who, for one reason or another, need quick-fire turnaround certified translations. We asked one of our project managers to give us the low-down.

TV productions, particularly documentary and news bulletins are filmed in a variety of languages. The filming can take place pretty much anywhere and the languages involved can be diverse. Typically, production companies, whether big or small, usually need things turned around extremely quickly and their requests can be challenging...

Postgraduate research is obviously a term that encompasses a huge variety of topics in different disciplines. Essentially, upon completing a Masters (or sometimes PhD) qualification, many academics move on to research, to extend their studies.

Globalization has had a huge impact on the world’s manufacturers and over the past few decades, our clients’ advertising campaigns have become increasingly streamlined. Whereas, in the past, marketing would have just targeted one part of the world, nowadays, one finds that advertising campaigns can touch all four corners of the globe!

Most of us have heard the term ‘voice-over’ before, in connection with films or radio, but what exactly does it mean and when did it come into being?

Transcribing from audio recordings is a real skill and it’s even more difficult if you are working from one language into another. We spoke with one of our German translators who regularly works on German transcriptions and direct translations from German into English.