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Clear, useful guides for teams creating multilingual video, audio, and learning experiences.

Restaurant and Franchise Training Video Translation
Enterprise

Restaurant and Franchise Training Video Translation

The kitchen and the dining room often do not speak the same language, and the training is usually written for the dining room.

Retail Frontline Training Video Translation
Enterprise

Retail Frontline Training Video Translation

Retail trains more people per year than almost any industry, and reaches fewer of them than it thinks.

Logistics and Warehouse Training Video Translation
Enterprise

Logistics and Warehouse Training Video Translation

A warehouse that hires four hundred agency workers for peak season has four hundred inductions to deliver in six weeks.

Construction Site Safety Video Translation
Enterprise

Construction Site Safety Video Translation

Construction has the most linguistically diverse workforce of any major industry and the least translated safety material.

Translate Video to Nepali: Honorifics, Devanagari, and Diaspora Reach
Translation Guides

Translate Video to Nepali: Honorifics, Devanagari, and Diaspora Reach

Nepali makes you choose how much respect to show before you can finish a sentence. English gives the system nothing to go on.

Translate Video to Bulgarian: Cyrillic, Grammar, and EU Compliance
Translation Guides

Translate Video to Bulgarian: Cyrillic, Grammar, and EU Compliance

Bulgarian looks like the Slavic languages around it and behaves like none of them.

Translate Video to Haitian Creole: Reaching an Audio-First Audience
Translation Guides

Translate Video to Haitian Creole: Reaching an Audio-First Audience

Haitian Creole is the case that most clearly shows why translated documents are not the same thing as language access.

Translate Video to Yoruba: Tone Marks, Dialects, and Nollywood Reach
Translation Guides

Translate Video to Yoruba: Tone Marks, Dialects, and Nollywood Reach

In Yoruba, a missing diacritic is not a typo. It is a different word.

Translate Video to Malay: Malaysia, Brunei, and the Indonesian Question
Translation Guides

Translate Video to Malay: Malaysia, Brunei, and the Indonesian Question

Malay and Indonesian are close enough that people assume one file serves both, and different enough that it never quite does.

Translate Video to Norwegian: Bokmal, Nynorsk, and a High-English Market
Translation Guides

Translate Video to Norwegian: Bokmal, Nynorsk, and a High-English Market

Norway has two official written standards, no standard spoken form, and an audience that could have watched your English original anyway.