Participant

Auto transcription/caption feature generates slur

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
April 28, 2025
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I'm not sure if this is technically a bug, but it is an issue that needs to be reported. Adobe Premiere's auto caption feature generated a slur in a short video of mine. The words spoken were "link up", and the caption generated is in the screenshot below. At no point in the sequence do the two speakers use the word. I think a more stringent review of the transcription feature's accuracy and sensitivity is called for.

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sammys37

Participant

this just happened in one of my ai transcriptions as well...wtf

TeresaDemel

Community Manager

Hi Jesse,

Thanks so much for flagging this. This is a really important issue. I'm the product manager for Speech to Text. I'll be reaching out to your directly to see if we can use your audio and test it with our system.

Best,

Teresa

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Jesse34826465zjueAuthor

Participant

Thank you Stan. In this case, Premiere made no alteration to the video or audio tracks whatsoever - it simply added the caption into the video as-is. I'm just glad I proofread every caption every time. It's one thing to incorrectly transcribe profanity and mute/cut audio that doesn't need to be. It's another thing entirely to add a racial slur via text onto a video that doesn't have it spoken. I need to know why this happened.