Sajid H.
Urdu & Punjabi Translator | RTL DTP | Localization | LQA | Subtitling
Senior Urdu and Punjabi Linguist with 8+ years of enterprise-level experience. Currently serving as Urdu Localization Consultant at Duolingo. Trusted by enterprise clients for end-to-end language and publishing services. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 TRANSLATION & LOCALIZATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Translation — English ↔ Urdu | English ↔ Punjabi (Shahmukhi & Gurmukhi) ✔ Transcreation — culturally native adaptation for marketing & UI copy ✔ Proofreading & Editorial Review — accuracy, fluency, consistency ✔ MT Post-Editing (MTPE) — Light & Full, all major MT engines ✔ Website, App & Software Localization — UI strings, metadata, product copy ✔ Game Localization — in-game UI, notifications, item descriptions ✔ UGC Localization — user-generated content, social media, community posts ✔ Back-Translation — legal, medical, certified documents ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ QUALITY ASSURANCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ LQA — Linguistic Quality Assurance ✔ LSO — Linguistic Sign-Off for web, app & video content ✔ Post-DTP Linguistic Review ✔ Terminology & Style Guide Compliance ✔ AI Training Data — annotation, response evaluation, prompt/output rating ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖥 RTL DTP & DOCUMENT PUBLISHING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ RTL Desktop Publishing — Adobe InDesign CC (.idml, .indd) ✔ Document Formatting — Word, PDF, InDesign, multilingual layouts ✔ Fillable PDF Forms — interactive, print-ready (Adobe Acrobat DC) ✔ Interactive PDFs — hyperlinks, buttons, form fields, bookmarks ✔ Brochures, reports, leaflets, datasheets — print & digital ready ✔ Post-Translation DTP — text expansion/contraction, font, layout fixes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙 MEDIA, AUDIO & VIDEO SERVICES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Subtitling — SRT, VTT, time-coded, burn-in ready ✔ Script Adaptation & Dubbing Scripts ✔ AI Voiceover — Urdu & Punjabi, bulk delivery (ElevenLabs) ✔ AI Dubbing — lip-sync aware, multilingual (ElevenLabs, Maestra) ✔ TTS Localization — text-to-speech script prep & voice direction ✔ Transcription — audio/video to text, Urdu, Punjabi, English ✔ Transcription + Timestamping — speaker-labeled, time-coded ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠 TOOLS & PLATFORMS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CAT: SDL Trados · MemoQ · XTM Cloud · Phrase TMS · Crowdin · Smartling DTP: Adobe InDesign CC · Acrobat DC · Photoshop · Illustrator AV: ElevenLabs · Maestra · Subtitle Edit · Aegisub · Adobe Audition PM: Memsource · Notion · Trello · Google Workspace ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WHY HIRE ME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Native Urdu & Punjabi — Shahmukhi and Gurmukhi scripts ✔ Active Duolingo contractor — enterprise-grade quality standard ✔ Full-service: Translation + DTP + Media under one roof ✔ Phrase TMS Certified | TWB Certified | ProZ Game Localizer Approved ✔ Fast turnaround — urgent and same-day delivery available ✔ Direct freelancer — clear communication, no middleman delays Send your files or project brief — response within a few hours.