Adaptation

Adaptation to Voice Recordings

Adaptation is the art of being able to shorten or lengthen a translation to match the original audio length. No translated sentence has the same length as the original. French, for example, is about 20 to 30% longer than English.

If a speaker were to attempt to record the translated French text displayed below, matching the time the English text is heard, he or she would have to speak so fast that no one would be able to understand the French audio.

Furthermore, people speak differently than they write. Most languages use a different style for written text as compared to spoken text. World Translation Center uses experienced audio translators who are familiar with audio recordings and who will make your project sound as if it originated in that language. Our audio translators understand the importance of keeping the translated text as short or as long as the original so that it can easily be recorded in the time available.

Sync points:
Instructional videos often have sync points and/or screen text appearing at a certain time. At that same time, the translation needs to match or, otherwise, be rephrased to match the video so that the new recording can be heard at the same time such sync points or screen text appear.

Translated text below show that rephrasing is needed to:

Translated Text shows that the sync point matches the original English text