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Sebastien35330504q8og
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Nov 3, 2026 3:06 PM UTC
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Premiere Pro 26.5.2 - English speech-to-text loops on repeated words (“do do do...”) while French transcription works fine

On Premiere Pro 26.5.2 (Build 5), the transcription of English-language video is unusable. On a 23-minute video call recording (single speaker, clear audio), the Transcript panel is filled with the same word repeated hundreds of times (“do do do do...”), with only a few real words in between (“until”, “and”, “directed”...). On a second English file (a short teaser), the transcript is also wrong (“Until it, until it”, “Directed at it...”), without the loop.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Import an English-language video
  2. Text > Transcript > Transcribe sequence
  3. Language: English (tried “English” and “English - United Kingdom”)
  4. Transcription completes without error, but the text is wrong

What I checked

  • The audio is clear and perfectly audible
  • Same result on two different English files
  • Same result after installing and testing a previous Premiere version [to confirm]
  • A French-language video transcribes correctly on the same machine, same version

System info

  • Premiere Pro 26.5.2 (Build 5)
  • OS: Win 11 Pro
  • CPU / GPU / RAM: Intel i7 - RTX4090 - 64 Go Ram

    5 replies

    aaronallsop
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    Nov 5, 2026 6:29 AM UTC

    I am using Premiere Pro 26.5 on Win 11 (5900x/4070ti/128gb RAM) and running into this same issue. I thought it might be be cause the audio wasn’t the best but I brought it into adobe podcast and cleaned it up and still having the same issue. 

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      Sebastien35330504q8ogAuthor
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      Nov 5, 2026 6:37 AM UTC

      I tried with an old media (which worked perfectly fine before) and the result is the same. So, it is definitely a bug/regression… 

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      Amy the Stuv
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      Amy the StuvCommunity Manager
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      Nov 3, 2026 4:15 PM UTC

      Hello ​@Sebastien35330504q8og 

      Welcome to the Premiere Forums. Your issue sounds like a known issue with some versions in 26. Please see the Known Issues post below. If the workarounds there do not help you, I could send you a private upload link if you’d be willing to provide us with the sample files to test on our end.

      Sorry for the inconvenience.

      Amy

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        Sebastien35330504q8ogAuthor
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        Nov 3, 2026 4:44 PM UTC

        Thank you for your quick reply. I went through the workarounds in the Known Issues post, but unfortunately none of them helped.

        Just to note: I’m on Premiere Pro 26.5.2 (Build 5), which is later than the 26.2 - 26.3 versions mentioned in the post. The problem is specific to English: a French video transcribes correctly on the same machine, while English files give either a loop of repeated words (“do do do...”) or wrong text, with and without the “English - United Kingdom” setting.

        I’m under time pressure on my project, so I can’t dig much further right now, but I will try rolling back to 26.0 as suggested in the post when I can and let you know the result.

        Thanks again for your help.

        Sébastien

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          Sebastien35330504q8ogAuthor
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          Nov 3, 2026 2:19 PM UTC

          Since updating to Premiere Pro 26.5.2 (Build 5), the transcription of my English-language video returns an unusable transcript. Instead of the spoken dialogue, the Transcript panel is filled with the same word repeated hundreds of times (“do do do do...”), with only a few real words scattered in between (“until”, “and”, “directed”, “written”...).

          Steps to reproduce

          1. Import an English-language video file (single speaker, video call recording, clear audio)
          2. Text > Transcript > Transcribe sequence
          3. Language: English (tried both “English” and “English - United Kingdom”)
          4. Transcription completes without error, but the result is a loop of repeated words

          Expected result

          A coherent transcript matching the spoken dialogue.

          Actual result

          The transcript is mostly the same word repeated, across the whole clip (23 min). I can provide screenshots.

          What I already checked

          • The audio is clear and perfectly audible in the project
          • Transcription tried twice with “English”, then with “English - United Kingdom”: same result
          • [Result of the test in the previous version: to be added]

          System info

          • Premiere Pro 26.5.2 (Build 5)
          • OS: [Windows 11 / macOS, version]
          • CPU / GPU / RAM: [to fill in]

          Related reports

          Another user reports a similar regression on 26.5.2 (Spanish transcription returning isolated syllables and unrelated words, started recently after it used to work).

           

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