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Premiere Pro 26.0.1 – Speech-to-Text Transcription Completely Inaccurate

Forum|Forum|2 months ago
March 4, 2026
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I am experiencing a critical issue with Adobe Premiere Pro 26.0.1 on Mac M5. The speech-to-text transcription feature produces entirely inaccurate results. Even with very clear audio, the transcript does not reflect what is said in the video. For a 2-minute video, the transcription output is completely wrong and unusable. Audio files and everything else are the right ones and there is nothing wrong with them, double checked;)

FlameCine

Participant

Adobe speech to text is so annoying. I’m forced to use third party apps to do the transcription. The worst part is Premiere pro doesn’t allow you to customize captions settings (e.g maximum number of character in a line/minimum duration e.t.c) for captions generated in third-party softwares yet their captions is unusable.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

@FlameCine,

It can be frustrating when any part is not working as expected. But you’re posting in a thread where the problem has been fixed in the latest release (26.2). But accuracy is an ongoing challenge. Staff reported that, not only was this issue (oddly bad accuracy) fixed, but additional improvements were made. So if you’re seeing accuracy issues in 26.2, be more specific about what you are seeing.

I’m not sure what you are describing regarding captions. If you’re importing a third party transcription, you can apply the same PR captioning parameters.

Stan

Bruno Casal González

Participant

tengo el mismo problema: premiere hace ahora unas transcripciones horribles, y lo peor es que todo ha pasado esta semana. la semana pasada transcribía bien. ahora ni siquiera entiende las frases, no tiene coherencia, confunde palabras básicas… horrible experiencia. alguien sabe de algún plugin de terceros que haga su trabajo bien?

jamieclarke

Community Manager

Updating Status to Fixed in Premiere version 26.2

Joethekid10

Participant

Do we know when this is releasing?

Stan Jones

Community Expert

Do we know when this is releasing?

It was in the cloud desktop updates for me yesterday.

Stan

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hulian08918839222

Participating Frequently

Can confirm the issue with the new Mac Pro M5 and the newest premiere version 26.0.2 which is the newest I can update to.

efford_5932

Participating Frequently

They found a fix for this, inside the beta it’s already working and that’s what I’ve been using for the time being until the full release comes out, so you go to creative cloud go to betas and download premier pro beta version and it will work, that fixed it for me.

the old version still doesn’t work for me, but the beta does.

efford_5932

Participating Frequently

Purchased a brand new MacBook Pro m5 pro, I downloaded the newest premiere onto the Mac, and when I went to edit my first video the captions were completely off, random words being put, most words being completely skipped over, I took the same video exported on the new m5 and put it to my older m3 chip and the captions transcribed perfectly.

I went through the whole process of deleting and completely reinstalling any adobe on the Mac as it was brand new, nothing fixed it.

I hope that this gets pushed to a formal error because many m5 chips are suffering from this.

Would love any info on this.

This is happening on the LATEST update, not beta.

jamieclarke

Community Manager

Hi @efford_5932 - This issue has been fixed in Premiere Beta version 26.3 and will be included in the next version of Premiere.

Can you confirm that you see this issue on an “M5 Pro” which was just announced on March 3rd?

efford_5932

Participating Frequently

That’s great news. Yes it’s the one just now released on March 3rd.

do you know when we can expect the next release?

efford_5932

Participating Frequently

Having the same exact issue, very frustrating.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

@kris32534534,

This was an issue is some recent version, although it may have been a Beta. And I think it was fixed. I can’t find any of the posts. @mattchristensen, I think you might have posted on one?

Stan

jamieclarke

Community Manager

Hi @kris32534534 - Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue. Please see, How do I write a bug report?

Can you give some more detailed information on what you mean by “transcription output is completely wrong and unusable”?

kris32534534Author

Participant

For example: a person in the video says ,, in 2016 building a mobile app used to cost..’’ , Premiere then transcribes it like that: ,, 16 billion moves to cost a minimum of ( and some more nonsense that’s not accurate) Example 2: ,,and work is perfect for launching multiple apps and testing ideas quickly. Premiere transcribes it: ,,Launching to labs and testing just quickly’’ Also it leaves empty spaces even when the person is talking and then starts again with nonsense. The audio is clean and it has nothing to do with bad dictating nor some extra noises.

jamieclarke

Community Manager

Hi @kris32534534 - Thank you for the additional information. Can you send one of your media files with this issue to jamiec@adobe.com

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