Certified accurate
A signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy, naming the fluent first-language translator of record, is issued for every deliverable and kept on file with the archive. Copies accompany compliance work and are available on request.
HBA translates public notices, health information, and official communications between English, spoken Diné (Navajo), and Hopi.
We turn public notices, health and safety information, utility and customer messages, and official documents into spoken or written Diné and Hopi, and carry the same languages back into English. Every word is produced by fluent, bilingual speakers. Send us the material, and we return it ready to reach the people an English-only version would miss.
Spoken audio is our specialty. The same fluency built for §203 election materials carries health notices, customer communications, contracts, and filings just as faithfully.
Delivered broadcast-ready: MP3 or WAV, sized for radio, robocall, social, or in-person playback.
Email us the notice, script, or document. Tell us the language, Diné, Hopi, or both, and whether you need spoken audio, written text, or both.
Every translation is done by hand by fluent, bilingual Diné and Hopi speakers, never by machine, so the meaning carries the way it's actually spoken.
You get back broadcast-ready audio (MP3 or WAV) or clean written text, sized and formatted for radio, robocall, social, print, or in-person playback.
Written translation doesn't reach everyone. Voice does.
Diné and Hopi are living, spoken languages, carried for generations in the voice rather than on the page. A printed notice often never reaches the speakers it was meant for. Audio meets people where they already are: a health alert a patient actually understands, an outage notice a household actually hears, a ballot instruction a voter can actually follow.
Across Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, jurisdictions covered by Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act are federally required to provide election materials in the languages their voters speak, Diné (Navajo) among them, and in Arizona, Hopi. For languages carried in the voice, audio isn't a courtesy; it's the form the law calls for.
HBA produces election notices, ballot instructions, and voter-assistance materials in broadcast-ready Diné and Hopi audio: fluent, accurate, delivered to spec. It's the deepest credential we hold and what we're built to deliver for covered counties.
Produced by fluent, bilingual Diné and Hopi speakers: the accuracy a machine or a non-speaker can't reach.
A signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy, naming the fluent first-language translator of record, is issued for every deliverable and kept on file with the archive. Copies accompany compliance work and are available on request.
Every audio file is loudness-normalized and measured against broadcast spec before it leaves. "Broadcast-ready" is checked on every file, never assumed.
HBA produces certified election and public materials under §203 coverage in Arizona: delivered to spec, accepted, and in use.
Never. Every translation is produced by fluent, bilingual Diné and Hopi speakers; that is the entire point of the practice. Machine output cannot carry meaning the way these languages are actually spoken.
Broadcast-ready audio, MP3 or WAV normalized to spec, or clean written text, sized for radio, robocall, social, print, or in-person playback. English renderings of Diné and Hopi material are delivered as text.
One is issued for every deliverable and kept on file with the archive. Compliance work includes a copy as a matter of course; for everything else, ask and it is yours.
Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah: wherever Diné and Hopi are spoken. Intake is by email, delivery is electronic, and election-cycle work is scheduled around the statutory deadlines of covered jurisdictions.
Tell us the language, the material, and your timeline, and we'll come back with scope and turnaround.
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