Our team of experienced professionals is your gateway to African transcription services, capturing the essence of diverse languages and cultures - quickly, accurately, and at a great price.
4.8 out of 5 Based on 2130 reviews
You’ve been sourcing African transcription services, but have found very few companies able to deal with such a wealth of dialects and tongues. Don’t fret! We’ve been transcribing content from widely spoken African languages to some of the rarest African dialects for 20+ years. Our clients include government organisations and international charities such as Oxfam, Save the Children and Christian Aid, to media organisations such as Channel 5, the BBC and Discovery Channel.
We've helped global brands and smaller businesses expand in 38 countries and 200 languages.
— Amin Elyas
— Danielle O.
Rest assured, we're the first UK translation company awarded ISO 17100 accreditation, among others, ensuring quality and accuracy for your projects.
Selected by Goldman Sachs to be an exclusive member of its £500 million innovation programme for better customer experiences!
As ATC and EUATC members, we prioritise your satisfaction by upholding the highest standards in business ethics and translation quality.
Celebrating 20+ years, Absolute Translations has mastered the art of providing quality translations at transparent, low prices to meet your language needs.
Absolute Translations is GDPR compliant, with independently regulated information and security systems, putting your data security first.
We are trusted by some of the world’s most recognisable brands to deliver accurate, fast transcriptions and subtitling in a huge range of African languages. From international broadcasters and filmmakers to global market research companies and government agencies, we pride ourselves on delivering the highest quality transcription to our clients, who trust us to ensure accuracy, speed and value for money. What's more, we can offer flexible and expediated turnaround times including same-day transcription for urgent and time-sensitive projects.
From news footage, documentaries, official information films, promotional media and interviews, to focus groups, meetings, conferences, speeches and even courtroom transcriptions, Absolute Translations can handle your full range of audio-visual transcription projects. All our translators are native speakers familiar with regional variations, vocabularies and dialects. They're often also specialists in a particular field, so if for example you need a courtroom transcript from an African language, we can connect you with a specialist legal translator who is used to legal vocabulary and requirements.
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The servive was super fast well done…
The servive was super fast well done and they answer right away. I translated with them some diplomas. I do recommend, price was better than some other places for this service.
yesterday
Great service
Really good service
yesterday
Very quick and accurate
Very quick and accurate
yesterday
Very prompt service
Reasonably priced compared to their competitors and a very prompt service.
3 days ago
Quick and efficient service
Quick and efficient service. Very helpful staff. Thank you
5 days ago
Excellent service
Mattia Piersanti was the project manager, very quick and very helpful.
1 week ago
Many thanks for your help
Very good and very nice
1 week ago
Excellent customer service
Excellent customer service. Prompt responses to all inquiries. Excellent turnaround and quality transcriptions!!
1 week ago
Agustin Pungitore was fantastic
Agustin Pungitore was a great help! very friendly, gave great advice, and very quick in responding. Overall, a fantastic service! Definitely recommended!
1 week ago
Great communication throughout
Great communication throughout
1 week ago
Great communication and response time
Great communication and response time. All requests dealt with promptly. Highly recommended !
1 week ago
good company
good customer service helpful in any time
2 weeks ago
Everything went smoothly
Everything went smoothly. Hiring them for the right translation service was easy, their communication was good, they were quick and efficient. I am very happy with their service.
2 weeks ago
100% recommend
100% recommend. I needed to have a form translated asap. The time was quick, communication was easy. Brilliant company!
3 weeks ago
They are a wonderful and helpful people.
They need more than five star, because all the time when a request to them some good stuff (translation and notarised of my documents) they do their best to send me on time. The price are very accessible for all people. I really recommend you to them and ended the day you’ll be happy and comfortable. More than five stars for them.
3 weeks ago
The service was professional and…
The service was professional and prompt. Submitting documents was made easy. Having both the electronic and hard copy translated documents is a bonus. I have used AT in the past and will not hesitate to do so again.
3 weeks ago
Great!
Fast and accurate.
3 weeks ago
Quick response and no delay.
Quick response and no delay.
3 weeks ago
Quick delivery, accommodated deadline
Good communication and customer service, quick delivery.
3 weeks ago
Excellent admin and communication…
Excellent admin and communication skills throughout the process. High quality and efficient translation. Many thanks.
3 weeks ago
"Great service
"Great service, amazing work, great experience, will use again "
The African continent has the highest linguistic diversity in the world, with an estimated 2,000 spoken languages and an additional 8,000 dialects that fall into six major linguistic families each with a different geographic distribution: AFRO-ASIATIC, NILO-SAHARAN, KHOISAN, NIGER-CONGO, AUSTRONESIAN, and INDO-EUROPEAN
Our network of local native speakers supports your business with its African language goals with a comprehensive and reliable transcription service in the majority of Africa’s languages and dialects.
Swahili, known as a ‘Bantu’ language is said to have originated from other languages such as Arabic and is the most spoken language in Africa. With around 150 million speakers, Swahili is the official language of Tanzania, and Uganda, as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya. The Swahili language is also spoken in many other countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Rwanda, Sudan, northern Mozambique, and the Comoros Islands.
Along with Arabic which is the world’s sixth most spoken language and also has 150 million Arabic speakers in Africa, Swahili is thought to be Africa’s most spoken language.
Absolute Translations is the UK’s leading translation company for African transcription services, with 20+ years of experience transcribing content in many African languages. From widely spoken African languages such as Arabic, Somali, Yoruba, Shona, Swahili, Aramaic, or Tswana, to rarer African languages or dialects such as the Ethiopian dialect Sidaama or the Benin tribal language Bariba. So if you’re looking for African transcription in a rare language or dialect, our professional team will work to connect you with a native speaker, even where other agencies may have failed.
Our translators and transcriptionists all have a minimum of five years’ experience translating in their native language, and our unique ISO 17100:2015 certification, which is awarded only to linguistic service providers of the highest quality, is your guarantee that we’ll always deliver the best standard of work for the most affordable prices.
Our extensive translator network covers even the rarest African languages but our emphasis is always firmly on customer service, that’s why we invest in new technologies to increase efficiency and aim to deliver a premium service whatever your requirements.
So, whether you need transcription from Amharic or Oromo, spoken in Ethiopia and by 2 million Ethiopians living elsewhere in the world, or from Swahili, the official language of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, or Yoruba with its numerous dialects, spoken in Nigeria, Togo and Benin, we can connect you with a local experienced transcriber who will be able to translate your content accurately and fast.
As part of our ongoing efforts to protect the environment for future generations, Absolute Translations is proud to have achieved carbon negative status!