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Accurate, affordable multimedia services from native speakers

Make an impression with your multilingual multimedia strategy.

thebigword provides expert localisation services to ensure your multimedia messages are received loud and clear.

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What we do

Look the part

Multimedia localisation requires a range of services to cover every aspect of your corporate media.

Video localisation

Cultural experts and native speakers localise not just audio but visual cues too

Subtitling and Dubbing

Accurate, natural sounding support services for over 250 languages

Animations

Reimagined animations for new language and cultural regions

Typesetting

Expert desktop publishing services from native speakers

Multimedia Language Services

Video Localisation

Multi-channel marketing requires a multilingual approach. Have your video content localised for regional and language markets to maximise your return on investment. By taking your video content and localising for different regions, you can exponentially increase your reach.

  1. Video localised for regional and language markets
  2. Maximise return on investment
  3. Localise for different regions
  4. Increase your reach

Multimedia Language Services

Subtitling & Dubbing

Authenticity is essential for global businesses, with collateral needing to appear as candid as possible. We provide real, accurate translation for your subtitles ensuring your on-screen text matches your visual. Our voiceovers are created in professional studios with specially trained linguists speaking their native tongue.

  1. Real, accurate translation for subtitles
  2. Ensure on-screen text matches visual
  3. Created in professional studios
  4. Specially trained dubbing linguists speaking in their native tongue

Multimedia Language Services

Animations

As with video localisation, the attention to detail required in adapting symbols, colours and themes is almost as important as language. Our specialist multimedia team are familiar with keyframe animation, transitions, titles, keying, rotoscoping and masking. Our team can accommodate almost any motion or 2D graphics localisation you may need for your videos.

  1. Adapting symbols, colours and themes
  2. Specialist multimedia team familiar with keyframe animation, transitons and more
  3. Accomodate any motion or 2D graphic localisation

Multimedia Language Services

Text-to-speech

Our text to speech service uses a leading technology solution available to the market, combined with our own expertise. For simple language support, our text-to-speech service is a quick and cost-effective solution.

  1. Leading technology solution
  2. Quick and cost-effective solution for simple support

DTP Service Providers

Typesetting

For beautifully formatted localised content, look no further than our multilingual desktop publishing (DTP) service. Offered in 250+ languages, we will ensure your content is reader-friendly without compromising on quality.

Choose our DTP service for:

  1. Optimum visual appeal and content accuracy
  2. Creating of PostScript and PDF files for online or print media
  3. Content extraction (any app or file format)
  4. Migration of writing processes to structured XML (e.g DocBook or DITA standards)
  5. Scripts for DTP software in unsupported languages
  6. Quality assurance throughout
  7. Source recreation
Our technology

Immediate access to all services

WordSynk is thebigword Group’s unique platform for delivering all language services in one place.

Used by clients from the world’s largest companies and brands, including well-known Silicon Valley tech companies, to British and US Government Departments.

  1. Translation and interpreting available in one platform
  2. Secured by Microsoft Azure cloud security
  3. Accessible from anywhere with internet connection
  4. Mobile apps to coordinate interpreters and service users
  5. Detailed management reporting
  6. Built in automation and AI powered services
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File processing

Working with a range of file types

Our multimedia team are experienced with most file types and armed with file processing software to convert and reconvert as required when localising your content. Meaning no matter the file type you may need localised, we are able to support. The file types we support are:

  1. PEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, AAC
  2. MP3, WAV, WMA, DOLBY DIGITAL, DTS, EPS
  3. WEBM, HTML5, AI, PDF, PSD
  4. IND, RAW, MP4, MOV, WMV
  5. AVI, AVCHD, FLV, F4V, SWF, MKV

Security

The most secure system on the market

Fast access to affordable and reliable language support services for global brands.

Security

Our WordSynk System is one of the most secure on the market. Hosted on Microsoft Azure Cloud Systems, it is one of the most secure cloud-based solutions available, with 256-bit encryption.

Microsoft Azure

For clients who require additional layers of security for their own compliance we are able to offer local and remote data storage through Microsoft’s Azure server network. 

ISO Compliant

We hold the ISO27001 for Information Security, demonstrating our commitment to providing excellent service to our clients. Including excellence in how we handle their data.

Compliance

Many of our clients have made commitments to Green and Carbon Neutral pledges, a commitment we admire and have strived to help our clients attain. That is why thebigword is 100% carbon neutral, so our clients can be sure that we are doing our part as a supplier.  

Honeywell

thebigword has customer service representatives explain the entire process and help us through each and every step as if we were their only concern. Communication is excellent, problem-solving is timely and friendly, and projects are always completed to deadline.

GlaxoSmithKline

thebigword has played a vital role for us, making something challenging seem simple. The whole translation process runs extremely smoothly and efficiently.

IBM

thebigword delivered exactly what we wanted

A much improved service for language support compared with our previous supplier – it’s been absolutely great value for money and means we’ve seen some decent savings.

London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games

Service delivery has been flawless. This is testament to thebigword’s ability to meet the needs of its clients and business partners by developing excellent relationships.