Odia (Oriya) interpreting and translation

Odia interpreters, not Bengali or Hindi substitutes

Odia is related to Bengali and Assamese, and many speakers know Hindi, but neither is an adequate substitute when a patient is giving consent, receiving a diagnosis or taking legal advice. Our Odia interpreters make sure the person hears the detail in their own language, whether the setting is a hospital, a GP surgery, an immigration interview, a university welfare meeting or a family matter.

Telephone and video interpreting make it quick to reach a qualified Odia linguist: telephone interpreting runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and video sessions run through the SILA Linguists® app or your own platform. Face-to-face sessions can also be booked, and consecutive interpreters can support business meetings with partners in Odisha's mining, steel, energy and port industries, with remote simultaneous interpreting for online events.

Odia translation and certified documents

Odia script is easy to recognise by the rounded, umbrella-shaped tops of its letters. It needs Unicode Odia fonts and careful checking of conjuncts after layout, which our team does as standard. We translate Odisha state documents, birth and marriage certificates, school and university certificates, land records, family and property papers and business correspondence, in both directions.

Older documents may use the spellings Orissa and Oriya, and we reproduce them exactly as they appear. Certified Odia translation includes a signed statement of accuracy, accepted by the Home Office, universities, employers, courts and other UK authorities, with names checked against passports. Odisha records needed by US immigration come with the translator's signed certificate of accuracy.

Odia transcription

We transcribe Odia interviews, recorded calls, research material and video with time stamps, adding an English translation. If a speaker uses Sambalpuri forms or switches into Hindi or English, the transcript says so, and passages in Santali, Ho or Kui are flagged so we can bring in the right specialist.

Where we can help in Odia

Our vetted, trained and qualified Odia linguists can support NHS and private healthcare, immigration advisers, universities and qualification assessors, family and property solicitors, and companies with industrial links to Odisha. One project team manages each request from start to finish, our linguists are vetted and sign confidentiality agreements, and all data is handled in line with UK GDPR. Odia interpreting is available for hospitals, universities and immigration attorneys in the United States, by video or telephone.