Professional Thai Translation Services

Over 500 qualified

Thai translators & editors

Leading localization

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Thai subject-matter experts

in all major industries

Over 10 million words

translated into Thai

1,000's of hours of subtitled

and dubbed Thai content

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• Printed documents such as annual reports, technical manuals, journals, reports, contracts, marketing materials, travel brochures, and business documents.

• Multimedia, such as movies, TV programs, news, games, audiobooks, radio programs, and online videos.

• Digital communications for websites, social media, and blogs.

• Apps and software and their user interfaces, help text, instructions, and documentation.

• All types of learning materials, such as textbooks, slides, and eLearning.

I've had the pleasure of working with Andovar on several projects, and I've always been impressed by their professionalism and dedication to delivering top-quality data. They are a trusted partner who I continually look to for new opportunities.

I had the opportunity of working with Andovar on a project that required translating a set of 3 different training materials into 20 languages. The quality of their deliverables was excellent, and they consistently met all the agreed timelines. I'm very pleased with the results and highly recommend their services to anyone looking for high-quality translation work.

Our partnership with Andovar has been key to the development of our global business. Not only have we relied on them for quality large-scale translation using machine translation,but we've also taken advantage of their content writing,linguistic testing and SEO research services.

We worked with Andovar on Chinese-to-thai translation and audio for one of our games:Ancient Legend.It has been great experience and we were very impressed by their professionalism and patience.We definitely look forward to working with them again.

Thanks to Andovar we were able to translate our App into 13 languages within a matter of weeks.Our non-english speaking users often comment how surprised they are that we aren't from their own country.We are extremely pleased with Andovar's work.

Working with Andovar for the translation and localization of our e-learning courses has been a very positive experience. This is a very competent and responsive team. The quality of the work is excellent and the option for languages and voice over are extensive. Overall, Andovar has allowed us to expand our training and meet new demand.

Andovar has proven on multiple projects to be a valuable partner for the translation of our courses. Their quotes are reliable, their project managers do a great job of keeping me informed, the translations are reliably accurate, and the pricing is fair. In short, they’re a dream vendor. Easy to work with, fairly priced, and excellent deliverables.

We have engaged Andovar a number of times and have found the service to be exceptional. The projects Andovar has helped us with have ranged in scope/size and have always been delivered to our requirements. From beginning to end, Murray (and team) ensures our needs are met and the results are delivered on time. I would have no hesitation to come to Andovar for future projects.

As your English to Thai translation company, Andovar offers a global reach that encompasses six offices in Asia, Europe, and the USA and 5,000 translators around the world. We have localized over one billion words.

By relying on native speakers from the area you want to reach, we make your brand culturally relevant by internationalizing with the appropriate dialect and social class or register. Our professionals must pass rigid tests and go through an extensive on-boarding process that hones their dedication to Thai and English, boosts their industry-specific expertise, and improves their customer-service skills.

To maintain consistency and increase efficiency, we depend on an advanced Translation Management System with top-quality Computer-Assisted Translation Tools. Our Terminology Translation Management process guides the choices we make for Thai terms. Before we approve a project, it must pass Quality Assurance (QA) verification.

Find out for yourself why many international companies tap Andovar to become their English to Thai translation agency. Give us a call to get a quote for our Thai translation services.

• Speed for completing your localization project before the deadline.

• Affordable cost to keep our services within your budget.

• Premium quality from using professional Thai translators who specialize in your industry.

Thai Website Translation

Thai Game Translation

Thai App Translation

Thai Document Translation

Thai e-learning Translation

Thai Subtitle Translation

Thai Software Translation

Thai is a tonal language with tones determined by the consonant class, syllable type, tone marker, and vowel length. Using the wrong tone can not only sound bizarre but alter the meaning of a word.

Translating Thai demands a choice among Northern, Northeastern, Southern, and Central dialects. In addition, the translation requires a pick from Common, Formal, Rhetorical, Religious, and Royal registers.

The unique Thai alphabet stands taller than the Latin alphabet. Thai text generally takes up 15 percent more space than its English counterpart. It also uses tone marks, which do not exist in English. Fortunately, the Thai alphabet uses only a single-byte set, which is the same as in English.

Thai text has no space between words. Instead, the spaces show the end of clauses and sentences. Breaking Thai text on a screen or page requires more thought and effort than breaking English text.

Thai verbs have no tenses. Context and adverbs, such as “yesterday” and “tomorrow,” reveal when a sentence is taking place.

Passive voice, which is commonly used in business, technical, and formal speech in English, is only used in Thai to show negativity.

Although English-speaking countries often poke fun at those in power, in Thailand, "it is illegal to defame, insult, or threaten the king, queen, heir-apparent, heir-presumptive, or regent."

Though Thai consists of only one language, it comprises the following four recognized main dialects, which correspond to areas of the country, and numerous local varieties.

• Northern (Khammuang). This dialect is strongly influenced by the border neighbor of Lao. The northern part was once a different country known as the Kingdom of Llanna.

• Northeastern (Lao): Spoken in the poorest region and by the largest population, this dialect is also heavily influenced by Laos and contains many Laotian words.

• Southern (Tai): This dialect has the fastest pace with natives shortening sentences to one or two words and words to single syllables.

• Central (Klang): Also known as Bangkok Thai, this is the dialect that is taught in schools, appears on TV, and is theoretically understood by everyone. Though concentrated in the economic and political center of the country, this minority dialect is not spoken by everyone.

Thai also has five registers or classes, which are ways of speaking:

• Common: A very informal version only used among close relatives and friends.

• Formal: Used in magazines and newspapers, this respectful variety is similar to the standard written version of the language.

• Rhetorical: This register is reserved for public speaking, such as by politicians.

• Royal: This class is used when addressing the Royal Family or talking about them.

• Religious: This variety is used by monks or when talking about religion.

The complexity of the Thai language and its profound difference from English make automated translation problematic even for basic understanding. The meanings of words can change depending on context and vocal tone. Word choices also depend on the dialect use and the register or class. For an English sentence, a Formal translation in the Central dialect will differ from a Rhetorical translation in the Northern dialect.

Only a human being can adequately translate documents, software, apps, turnkey multimedia, ecommerce, eLearning, and websites.. This is why Andovar depends on professional Thai translators who are native speakers of the area you want to target. To locate experts with the best skills, we test applicants on their fluency in both Thai and English, accuracy in grammar and vocabulary, knowledge of specific industries, and ability to communicate effectively.

Once accepted, these translators must go through rigorous onboarding processes that hone their talents to meet our high standards of customer service. In addition to extensive training and qualifications, our translators are also well-adapted to using localization industry-leading localization technologies to ensure top-notch quality with each and every translation we complete.

The unique issues of a professional Thai voiceover involve more than translating a word from one language to another.

• What dialect do you use? An executive from Bangkok talking to clients speaks differently than a farmer from Northern Thailand who chastises his children.

• How much slang or colloquial speech is appropriate? Familiar expressions that have no place in business dialog are welcome in a TV drama.

• Most importantly, what register or class of speech do you use? Two old friends share a drink in Common while a politician discusses the latest infrastructure projects in Rhetorical.

At Andovar, our professional Thai translators take all such issues into account because they are native speakers and professional actors. Beyond linguistic ability and cultural sensitivity, we look for talent with expertise in script comprehension, voice projection, and clear action. The professional Thai voiceover must engage audiences with compelling acting that works for streaming services, movies, TV programs, advertising, corporate communications, online primary education.

We rely on experienced directors, pronunciation guides, and language QA to handle narration, UN-style recording, and dubbing through lip-sync or scene sync. Companies like Netflix, Hyatt, Hilton, and Ciena look to us for voiceovers in TV dubbings, documentaries, games, corporate narration, training, and eLearning.

Of Thailand’s nearly 70 million people, almost 49 million use the Internet and 55 million use social media. The Thai typically use their smartphones to browse the web with more than 90 million mobile connections. Many have more than one such connection, which accounts for a number that is almost 130 percent of the total population.

Statistics like these inform the Thai website translation services of Andovar. We don’t simply convert one sentence from English to Thai. Rather, we also look at prevailing market conditions, area technology, and cultural norms to localize your website. Our intelligent transcreation brings companies like Spotify, Amway, Qnet, Agoda, and Hatch to our doorstep. They trust us to broadcast their brand message when internationalizing the eCommerce platforms, landing pages, and knowledge bases of their company websites. To make our efforts easier to find, we also manage Search Engine Optimization (SEO) terms.

Our professionals are not only expert translators but also specialists in Internet technology and your industry. We integrate Training Management System (TMS) connectors, Application Program Interfaces (APIs), and Content Management System (CMS) plug-ins with Magento, WordPress, Shopify, and other CMS platforms. We take care of each aspect of website localization, from selecting appropriate terminology to designing an appropriate UI.

At Andovar, our professional translators handle every aspect of Thai software translation services. Because we rely on specialists in your industry who are also native speakers, we are as adept in dealing with UI, help, resource, and other files as we are in deciding between the Northern or Central dialect and between the Formal or Rhetorical register.

For our high-quality translations, we depend on cutting-edge software localization technology and process. Multidimensional Quality Metric (MQM) Quality Assurance then verifies the technical accuracy and functions of the result. Among our satisfied clients are Microsoft, Symantec, and Netsuite. They return to our translation services because we take into account cultural norms, communication styles, language use, and local work habits in our efforts.

If you hope to reach a global market with your cloud-based, server-based, or mobile applications, we’re happy to recommend strategies that make localization more convenient and efficient. For example, allow for more room in your layout, UI, and fields for text expansion. Thai takes up to 15 percent more space than the equivalent English. Some languages expand by up to 30 percent.

User interfaces

Windows, tutorials, buttons, popups, menu options and other elements that gamers see can be localized at the source or text levels.

Dialog

The emotional attitude, prose artistry, and technical message remain the same for your characters in the target and source languages. We use talented voice actors when dubbing and recording.

Game descriptions

Whether for a desktop download or mobile app, the way in which we describe your offering attracts attention and maximizes organic traffic.

Marketing and advertising

To avoid embarrassing and offensive translation mistakes, our translations carefully consider cultural details. We use slang, colloquialisms, dialects, and class registers that are appropriate to the local gamer.

User reviews

Gamers trust the reviews of other players rather than professional critics when deciding whether to buy your product. Our localized reviews capture the spirit and intended message of the original.

Official reports put the number of English speakers among native Thai at around 27 percent of the entire population. Some even lower that estimate to around 10 to 15 percent. These figures represent those who speak some English. Those who are actually fluent in English comprise an even smaller percentage.

These statistics mean that any information you receive from co-workers, vendors, customers, and other interested parties in Thailand will most likely be in Thai. If you’re interested in gisting, or getting the main idea of what you receive, you can try online or automated translation programs. But to reach a true understanding of what any of these communications mean, you can turn to the Thai to English translation service of Andovar.

Our professional translators are native speakers of English who are also fluent in Thai. We also assign specialists in your field, which ensures that the translation is technically accurate, relevant to your business, and culturally sensitive. If you only have printed or hand-written materials to work with, we convert them first to machine form through Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

We also handle subtitles in Over-The-Top content when they need to be localized from Thai to English. If you want to be sure that any English documents translated to Thai are accurate, we can also back-translate legal/litigation, medical, and corporate communications.

When companies like Netflix, Disney, NetEase, and iflix need their YouTube media, corporate videos, OTT content, and streaming services, they turn to Andovar. They trust that our Thai subtitle translation services will do justice to the linguistic accuracy, literary message, and artistic intent of the source subtitles. We work with all subtitle formats, including SRT, TTML, VTT, SCC, and more.

Our efforts ensure that the localized versions take up an appropriate amount of screen area even though Thai takes up to 15 percent more space than English. They also keep pace with the speaker so that the audience understands the presentation in the same way that an English-speaking viewer would. A challenge particular to the language is knowing where to break a subtitle line. Thai only uses spaces to separate phrases and sentences, and not words.

We rely on professional translators who are also native speakers of Thai, and can choose the appropriate dialect and determine the correct register, such as Common, Formal, Rhetorical, Royal, and Religious. Through the use of the most advanced tools and platforms, we can manage template creation, SDHS subtitles, and captions.

Fast Internet connections, smartphones, tablets, and a desire to preserve nature have prompted the transition to a paperless society. Despite that aspiration, business and industry still demand printed materials. Your company may produce everything from marketing brochures to technical manuals, which also have their online counterparts. When you want to port all these materials to vendors, colleagues, and clients in Thailand, you can turn to the Thai document translation services from Andovar.

We can take care of as much or as little of the publishing process as you want. If you have printed or hand-written sources, we turn them into online files through OCR. We can then internationalize the source files, design layouts for them, and create graphics that are culturally meaningful to your target audience. We edit the drafts and publish the finals in digital or printed form. Among the tools we use are InDesign, Illustrator, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Word.

We rely on professional translators who are native Thai speakers to conduct the localization to ensure an accurate representation of your brand. Among the companies that trust us with their marketing materials, technical instructions, Standard Operating Procedures, and operator and service manuals are Siemens, Transocean, Minor Group, and Chevron.

E-learning provides an affordable solution for training your employees and clients. It stands out as more cost-effective than hiring a live instructor, avoids scheduling and space conflicts, disperses your efforts without regard to geography, and encourages the student to learn at his or her pace. The Thai e-learning translation services of Andovar localize your training to the audience in Thailand.

Our native Thai translators are also fluent in English and specialists in education. They tailor the lessons so that they are appropriate to the local dialect and appropriate register or class. For example, a lesson on the ruling family can use the Central dialect and the Royal register, while training targeted to businesses in Songkhla uses the Southern dialect and the Formal register. This sensitivity to culture has companies like Learnship, Cegos, Docebo, and Learning.com coming to us for our Thai elearning translation services.

We work with tools like Articulate 360, Articulate 360, Captivate, and Lectora to internationalize courseware, games, videos, software, mobile apps, and Learning Management Systems (LMSs). As part of our turnkey solutions, we take care of voiceovers and text translations, and ensure that our quizzes and presentations are SCORM-compliant. Integration testing then verifies that the results you receive in Thai are equal to those for English.

The language is related enough linguistically to Laotian that they share many similar words. Many Laotians speak and read Thai. The language is tonal with five tones, making it a challenge to learn for speakers of English, which has no tones.

However, the grammar is easier. Words do not change according to tense, number, or gender, and Thai has no conjugations, inflections, or declensions. Sometimes, markers such as “yesterday” appear in a sentence to imply tense.

As of 2020, Internet penetration in Thailand reached 76 percent with a predicted growth to 84 percent by 2026. Over 53 million browse the Internet on mobile phones, which is the most used surfing device. This is close to the number of social media users in the country.

How long will it take to deliver my Thai Translation?

The turnaround time is typically estimated based on the volume of work and content complexity.
Our non-rush turnarounds for Turkish languages are approximately as follows:

• Up to 500 words - under 24 hours
• 1,000 to 2,000 words - under 36 hours
• Over 2,000 words - at least 1,500 words per day

Do you work with native translators?

Yes. We work exclusively with over 500 native highly-qualified Thai translators, editors and terminologists to ensure professional, content-suited results. Moreover, we provide a free comprehensive revision if you happen to be unsatisfied.

Will I have direct contact with the Thai translators?

For your ultimate comfort and convenience, an assigned project manager will be there to assist you with your project.
He/she prepares, supervises, and manages all the processes related to your project including communication with the involved linguists.

Will I get to select Thai voiceover artists for dubbing requests?

Yes, you have the full say in which talent(s) will partake in your Thai language request. For every language we have a selection of voice talents to choose from. We make sure your vision comes to life!

Consult & Prepare

At the beginning of every project, we carry out an in-depth consultation to ensure we fully understand the requirements and to determine the technology we will deploy.

Connect & Localize

Using content connectors, API, translation memories and termbase, as well as style guides and other reference materials, the translation and localization process begins.

Test & launch

All projects undergo MQM quality assurance prior to delivery, including human and automated QA checks, as well as linguistic and functional testing.