Multimedia translation

Multimedia translation adapts audiovisual, digital, and interactive content for audiences using different languages. It coordinates linguistic choices with image, sound, timing, interface, and technical constraints.

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Audiovisual translation: The translation of audiovisual works, including films, television programs, and online video. It covers the screen-based works whose dialogue, sound, and images must be translated together.
Subtitle spotting: The process of setting subtitle in-points, out-points, and durations to match audiovisual events. It determines when translated text appears and disappears on screen.
Translation: The rendering of meaning from one language into another. Multimedia translation extends linguistic transfer into timed and interactive forms.
Transcription: The conversion of spoken language into written text. It records speech but does not necessarily translate it or adapt the surrounding media.
Website localization: The adaptation of a website’s language, content, and functionality for a particular locale. Web translation also adjusts navigation, formats, and culturally specific content.
Lip synchronization: The alignment of spoken dialogue with visible mouth movements in audiovisual media. Dubbing often reshapes translated lines to match actors’ visible speech.
Localization: The adaptation of a product or content for the language and conventions of a target locale. It includes cultural and technical changes beyond translating words.
Internationalization: The design of a product so it can be adapted for multiple languages and locales. It prepares software or content for localization rather than translating it for a target audience.
Software localization: The adaptation of software interfaces and supporting materials for users in a particular locale. Interface text must fit functional, linguistic, and technical constraints.
Text expansion: The increase in length that can occur when text is translated into another language. Longer translated strings can exceed subtitle limits or interface space.