Subtitling services do not have to be plain or generic. In the hands of the right professionals, especially those from a highly reputable language translation agency, subtitling services can be made to be “high impact.” What this means is that subtitles can be made to serve the marketing goals of a certain project, as opposed to the simple provision of decent translation. Of course, not all subtitling services involve translation-most subtitling orders, in fact, are of the same language (for instance, audio is English and subtitles are also in English). However, the mission critical nature of such a service can be more understood in the context of performing a business presentation to an audience consisting of people who do not speak the presentation’s language.
To illustrate, say you are in Argentina meeting some local businessmen. Sure, you have brought with you an interpreter to translate your speech to the Spanish language, when needed. You also have had all your necessary business documents translated into Spanish. However, you are still doing the business presentation, and if this is done without accurate and high impact Spanish subtitles, this could “water down” the intensity of your presentation’s selling points.
Accurate subtitling services do not always have to accompany the kind of marketing or business collaterals that are to be delivered in person. Subtitles can also be integrated in advanced automated means of presentations. Primarily, such presentations would be online: you visit a company’s website, and automatically (or usually, upon the consent of the website’s visitor and activated by a click of the mouse) a presentation video outlining the company’s business or service begins to play.
The role of subtitling services is crucial at this point: if the website’s visitor happens to speak or understand only a language other than English, such as Spanish or Chinese, the website would miss an important business opportunity if the said presentation video does not have the appropriate audio or language appropriate subtitles. This would be lamentable as detecting the country of origin is easy (a web developer can install a code for this on the website’s server), which means the whole client interaction can be done automatically. Therefore, deploying the language appropriate content (along with the right language subtitles) should have been smooth and easy and, most importantly, effective.
In a nutshell, accurate subtitling services can work hand in hand with a company in achieving its business objectives. Moreover, such services should also be used with the latest presentation and web technologies in order to maximize a company’s various marketing and customer service collaterals.