Swahili subtitling
English > Swahili subtitle translation from templates, spotting and timing, and full QC against video. Experience with the Netflix Timed Text Style Guide.
Nairobi, Kenya · Freelance since 2014
Roger Ogweno Ndege
Swahili subtitles, English captions & audio description
Subtitling, captioning and linguistic QA for streaming, documentary, corporate and public-health content, delivered to your specs and timecodes.
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,400
Karibu. Tunatafsiri kila neno
kwa wakati unaofaa.
12+ yrssubtitling, captioning and translation
300 hrsUK/US English conference subtitling
150k+words of health-related EN>SW translation
3working languages: English, Swahili, Dholuo
00:00:12,000 Services
What I can take off your hands
English captions & SDH
Pop-on captions (all-centered, mixed case), SDH with speaker IDs and sound cues, and post-editing of ASR captions to client style guides.
Audio description
AD captioning and scene/action description scripts, plus CCSL and dialogue lists for ongoing series.
Dholuo
English <> Dholuo (Kisumu–South Nyanza) translation, transcription, SRT creation and timecoding, and audio and text quality assessment.
Translation, TEP & MTPE
English <> Swahili for healthcare, public sector, education, legal and software content, human or post-edited.
Linguistic QA & AI evaluation
Review and arbitration, recruitment-test evaluation, and Swahili rating and acceptability grading for AI projects.
00:00:24,500 Specs
Working to your specifications
Tools
Ooona, CaptionHub, Subtitle Edit, Aegisub, Amara, Subtitle Workshop, Phrase TMS, Bureau Works, Smartcat
Delivery formats
SRT, WebVTT, SCC, EBU STL and plain text, with source timecodes kept intact at 23.976, 25 or 29.97 fps
Availability
Seven days a week, including rush jobs. Happy to take a short test in any service above.
00:00:38,200 Experience
Selected work
2023 – now
English captioner · SoundTitles
Audio description captioning, English SDH and caption post-editing in Ooona and CaptionHub, often large files on short turnarounds.
2018 – now
English <> Swahili subtitler · Plint, GoLocalise
Netflix subtitle translation, including 8 episodes of the series Top Boy, and a 140-minute subtitle translation of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
2020 – now
Captioner and translator · inWhatLanguage
English US/UK transcription and captioning, English <> Swahili translation, and reviewer for Swahili recruitment tests.
2020 – 2022
Captioner · DotSub
Captioning for Amazon AWS Summit presentations; recognised as one of the best English captioners in 2022.
2016 – now
English subtitler · SW19 Translations
300 hours of UK/US English subtitling for London IET conferences.
2014 – now
Translator and reviewer · Trusted Translations, Appen
English > Swahili translation, editing and proofreading for US public-sector and healthcare clients; Dholuo <> English translation, transcription and quality assessment.
00:00:52,000 Contact
Send me your next file
Tell me the runtime or word count, language pair, deadline and specs, and I’ll reply quickly with a quote. Samples are available on request.
roggerndeg@gmail.com