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.
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.
- Video localised for regional and language markets
- Maximise return on investment
- Localise for different regions
- 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.
- Real, accurate translation for subtitles
- Ensure on-screen text matches visual
- Created in professional studios
- 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.
- Adapting symbols, colours and themes
- Specialist multimedia team familiar with keyframe animation, transitons and more
- 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.
- Leading technology solution
- 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:
- Optimum visual appeal and content accuracy
- Creating of PostScript and PDF files for online or print media
- Content extraction (any app or file format)
- Migration of writing processes to structured XML (e.g DocBook or DITA standards)
- Scripts for DTP software in unsupported languages
- Quality assurance throughout
- Source recreation
Unified Platform
Innovative quality assurance
technology
WordSynk is thebigword Group’s unified platform for language-software solutions. Used by all of our clients from the world’s largest companies and brands, including well-known Silicon Valley tech companies, to the British and US Government Departments.
- Secured by Microsoft Azure cloud security
- Accessible from anywhere with internet connection
- Mobile apps to coordinate interpreters and service users
- Detailed management reporting
- Built in automation and AI powered services
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:
- PEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, AAC
- MP3, WAV, WMA, DOLBY DIGITAL, DTS, EPS
- WEBM, HTML5, AI, PDF, PSD
- IND, RAW, MP4, MOV, WMV
- 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.