Tamil Subtitles & Captions

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

We can provide captions and Tamil 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 Tamil subtitling

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

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

Tamil transcription and translation for film and tv

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

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

Tamil video SEO

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

Rates

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

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

amil is a Dravidian language predominantly spoken by the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka, and also by the Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Moors, Burghers, Douglas, and Chindians. Tamil is an official language of two countries, Sri Lanka and Singapore. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. It is also used as one of the languages of education in Malaysia, along with English, Malay and Mandarin.Tamil is also spoken by significant minorities in the four other South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and the Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India.

Tamil SAMPLE TEXT

ல-கரம், ழ-கரம்.

Tamil example video

AND LASTLY, A Tamil tongue twister

Pachai Kulanthai Vazhai pazhathirkaga vizhundhu vivizhundhu azhuthathu.
Transliteration