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March 6, 2023
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Export .vtt transcript (with speaker partition)

  • March 6, 2023
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Hi, 

 

After using the speech-to-text feature in the Premiere Beta version (23.3.0) , I need to export the transcript as a .vtt file that keeps the speaker partioning info intact.

 

Currently, there are 3 options: export transcript (.prtranscript), export to text file (.txt) and export to csv file.

However:

  • I couldn't find any tool that convert from .prtranscript to .vtt.
  • When converting a .txt to .vtt (or .csv to .vtt), I loose information about the speaker partitioning
    • For example:
      • Source in CSV:
        • "Speaker 1","00:00:01:04","00:00:12:00","This is my first sentence."
      • Converted in VTT: 
        • 1
          00:00:01.250 --> 00:00:02.625
          This is my first sentence.

 

Ideally, when exporting .vtt files, the speaker names should be formatted as <v NAME > in order for other tools to correctly extract the speaker name.

 

Is there any workaround I haven't thought about? Or is it something that Adobe will consider implementing?

 

Thanks a lot!

1 reply

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 11, 2023

I would use a macro in Excel to convert the csv to whatever format I needed.

 

So far, PR provides no .vtt export at all. The EBU/timed text maybe/used to provide an option, but all of that applies only to captions. I think there is an "Idea" for .vtt export.

 

Curious as to how you'd use vtt for transcript, as much of that is paragraph long text sections.

 

Stan