Multimedia Localization Services
Eriksen provides multimedia localization services from concept through launch, helping you expand your website, adapt your video content, and scale your app across languages. Thoughtful adaptation ensures your message resonates wherever it’s seen and heard.
Multimedia Formats We Localize
Your multimedia content shapes how people connect with your brand. That experience should feel natural, clear, and cohesive in every language. Eriksen supports multimedia localization across a wide range of formats, including:
- Websites and web applications
- Mobile apps
- E-learning and training modules
- Video content
- Presentation decks with embedded media
- Audio tours and narrated experiences
From planning through final delivery, we coordinate the linguistic and technical details, so your multimedia content launches smoothly and works well in each language.
Multilingual Voiceover Production
Multilingual voiceover delivers your message clearly and authentically across languages. For training, marketing campaigns, public outreach, and immersive experiences, professionally produced narration helps your content connect with the people you want to reach.
Eriksen manages the full voiceover process, from script adaptation and talent casting to recording, audio engineering, and final delivery. Our native-speaking voice actors are carefully selected to match your brand and tone, and recordings are reviewed for linguistic accuracy, pacing, and technical quality. When appropriate for your objectives, we offer AI-assisted voiceover solutions tailored to your project’s needs.
Every recording is produced to integrate seamlessly with your multimedia content and perform consistently across platforms.
Subtitles and Captions: What's the Difference?
Subtitles and captions both display text on screen, but they serve different purposes. Subtitles translate spoken dialogue into another language. Captions include not only dialogue but also relevant sound cues, such as music, background noise, and speaker identification, to support viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Whether you need multilingual subtitles to reach more viewers or captions to support accessibility and compliance, clear on-screen text keeps your video content easy to follow and inclusive.
Subtitling and Captioning Services
Eriksen manages the subtitling and captioning process end-to-end, from translation and text adaptation to timing, formatting, and quality review. Projects begin with time-coded scripts or, when needed, audio transcription, ensuring subtitles and captions align precisely with speech, pacing, and visual transitions. Readability, character limits, and line breaks are carefully balanced, so text remains clear without distracting from the visual experience.
The result is precisely timed, professionally formatted on-screen text that enhances comprehension and accessibility across viewing environments.
E-learning Localization
Digital learning experiences achieve the greatest impact when learners can access content in their native language. Eriksen localizes complete e-learning courses, including narration, on-screen text, quizzes, animations, and interactive elements. Content is adapted for clarity and cultural relevance while maintaining technical functionality across authoring tools and learning management systems.
Navigation, user interface elements, timing, and media synchronization are reviewed so each course performs as intended in every language. This keeps your learners engaged, confident, and aligned with your goals.
Learn more about our e-learning localization services.
Multilingual Typesetting for Multimedia and Digital Content
Your multilingual media should look as polished as it sounds, because presentation shapes credibility. Eriksen’s typesetting experts adapt layouts to support right-to-left languages, adjust for text expansion, and apply typographic best practices across scripts and platforms. We uphold language-specific standards for capitalization, punctuation, and line breaks so the integrity of your design remains intact.
Multimedia Quality Assurance and Functionality Testing
Prior to launch, Eriksen offers quality assurance reviews and functionality testing of your multimedia components. This important final step helps you go live with confidence across languages and devices, ensuring everything looks and performs as intended.
Your Multimedia Localization Partner
As your content expands across formats and audiences, we protect the integrity and impact of your message. Eriksen works as an extension of your team, guiding localization at each stage to keep your multimedia content cohesive, polished, and effective in each setting.
What is multimedia localization?
Multimedia localization is the process of adapting websites, apps, video, e-learning, audio, and other digital content so it feels natural and performs as intended in another language. It covers both language and technical details, including on-screen text, voiceover, subtitles and captions, layout, and functionality. Eriksen manages multimedia localization from planning through launch.
What types of multimedia content can Eriksen localize?
Eriksen localizes websites and web applications, mobile apps, e-learning and training modules, video content, presentation decks with embedded media, and audio tours and narrated experiences. Supporting services include multilingual voiceover, subtitling and captioning, multilingual typesetting, and quality assurance testing.
What is the difference between subtitles and captions?
Subtitles translate spoken dialogue into another language. Captions include dialogue as well as relevant sound cues, such as music, background noise, and speaker identification, to support viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing. Subtitles help you reach viewers in other languages, while captions support accessibility and compliance.
What is included in multilingual voiceover production?
Eriksen manages the full voiceover process: script adaptation, talent casting, recording, audio engineering, and final delivery. Recordings are reviewed for linguistic accuracy, pacing, and technical quality, so they integrate with your multimedia content and perform consistently across platforms.
Does Eriksen offer AI voiceover?
Yes. Eriksen offers two voiceover options: professional voiceover recorded by native-speaking voice actors selected to match your brand and tone, and AI-assisted voiceover, when appropriate for your objectives. We help you choose the option that best fits your content and goals.
How is localized multimedia tested before launch?
Before launch, Eriksen offers quality assurance reviews and functionality testing of your localized multimedia across languages and devices. Reviews confirm that on-screen text displays correctly, subtitles and voiceover stay in sync with visuals, and navigation and interactive elements work as intended, so your content is ready to go live in each language.
We’ve had great feedback from our field staff about how the videos are freeing up the time they normally spend training partners, letting them focus on other important tasks. Thanks so much for being an important part of this project. It was a pleasure to work with Eriksen.
Meredith Treadwell, Kiva
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