Challenges In Arabic To English Subtitling Services
Arabic subtitling services are full of challenges. It is not at all an easy task to write Arabic subtitles due to a lot of issues. The difficulties present in Arabic to English subtitling services are the same that are faced while performing English to Arabic subtitling services.
Be it a video, short film, movies, informational videos, interviews, or any other kind of file, firstly, the subtitles are written in the original language of the file, and then it is translated into other languages. So, basically, it is a two-step process that gives you the desired results.
The same can be quite easy for other language pairs but not with Arabic and English. A few of the challenges include the following:
The very first challenge that is faced by the professionals while performing Arabic video subtitling services is the dialects. Arabic is not considered as a single language. Thousands of years back, this language has been evolved into different dialects because the people speaking Arabic immigrated to different geographical locations. This is the major reason why the various dialects of this language are spoken in 16 countries including Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen. Now, the challenge is to understand the correct dialect and then perform subtitling.
The second challenge is the common dialect. Modern Standard Arabic is one dialect that is used by the majority of the Arabic-speaking population. The language is either spoken by or at least understood by more than 206 million people around the world. Now, if the subtitles are to be written in this dialect, it will be easy for the professionals but the same becomes a difficult task when they need to translate the English subtitles into some another not so common Arabic dialect. In such cases, finding the appropriate words and making an error-free copy of subtitles become difficult.
Another challenge that the experts need to deal with is romanization. Depending upon the number of users, Arabic is considered to be the third most commonly used writing system worldwide. But, yet the computer keywords in this world use Latin characters. Therefore, the process of customized transliterate is used for converting Arabic into the Latin alphabets and this entire process is called romanization. Some native Arabic experts have created one such transliteration system known as Arabic Chat Alphabet, which is used for normalizing spellings for the internet.
One common challenge in Arabic transcribing, Arabic subtitling, and Arabic captioning services are spellings. A single word can have multiple spellings in Arabic. Now while writing the subtitles, it is uttermost important to have correct spellings but, a word with one spelling can be correct for a speaker but the same can be wrong for another. All this can also lead to confusion and can sometimes be misleading as well.
The sentences in Arabic usually takes less space on the screen when compared to the English sentences. Thus, writing subtitles in a way that fits at the bottom of the screen perfectly and is in synchronization with the dialogues being spoken in the video at the given time. You need to hire only professional subtitling companies with Arabic experts so that they know how to manage the space so that neither too much content is displayed at once nor space is too empty.
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