Swahili Subtitles & Captions

Knockhundred offers a high-quality Swahili 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 Swahili, for cinema, TV, online material, DVD, video, video games, computer games and corporate CD-ROMS.

We can provide captions and Swahili 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 Swahili subtitling

Using subtitling software, we can provide subtitles in virtually any language including Swahili, 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 Swahili 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 Swahili captioning

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

Swahili transcription and translation for film and tv

We regularly translate film and documentary clips providing a finished transcription with time codes ready for Swahili 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 Swahili subtitles

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

Swahili video SEO

Do you have an existing video in Swahili, 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 Swahili transcript to support your video content or to provide Swahili subtitles or captions.  This is how search engines will “hear” your video.

Rates

• Swahili subtitling rates start from £10.99 + VAT per source video minute
• Swahili same language transcription rates start from £3.99 per source audio/video minute
• Swahili 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 Swahili transcription service we offer.

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

Swahili has official language status in Tanzania and Kenya and is also widely spoken in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Comoros Islands. It’s also spoken by smaller numbers in Burundi, Rwanda, Northern Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.

Swahili SAMPLE TEXT

Dalili ya mvua ni mawingu.

Swahili example video

AND LASTLY, A Swahili tongue twister

Mpishi mbishi kapika mchicha mbichi.
A chef has cooked spinach that turned out undercooked.