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FPS_Fish
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February 6, 2023
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Import 3rd party transcription files into text panel

  • February 6, 2023
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No question PP's ability to generate a transcription is great.

But for many projects the transcription is inadequate to our needs.
 
We work in mixed language interviews, interviews involving technical terminology, people thick accents, and more.
 
For that reason we hire a professional transcriber who does an excellent job of getting around all these issues.
From there we do a paper edit and then painstakingly search for the text by timecode.
 
Digital Anarchy offers a plugin that is supposed to be able to do this. But it is slow and buggy (on my system anyway).
We have tried having PP transcribe as welland then search within that.
But there are too  many discrepancies to make it worthwhile.
 
The missing link is in Adobe's hands.
 
I don't pretend to know the nuances of code.
But if AI can figure out what people are saying,
then can't it figure out how to match up previously written text to the spoken word of an interview?
 
 
Thanks for listening

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    FPS_FishAuthor
    Inspiring
    February 6, 2023

    Thanks Stan! I know text-based editing is coming and I'm very excited about it. If I get a chance I'll try the beta version for sure. But no, I doubt they will be offering an import transcript option. I was thinking that if formatting is an issue, I may be able to get our transcriber to modify Premiere's text. So if Premiere could export a format that it knows it can import back in, that may be an option for us. But I admit, I don't know our transcriber's process.

    Stan Jones
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    Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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    February 6, 2023

    BrownFish,

     

    I upvoted. It is a great idea and there are many users who want the functions you want.

     

    The engineers are still actively developing the speech to text and related functions.

     

    They just announced "text based editing" in the regular forum, which to me signals that it may soon find its way to a release version - although there is no formal reason for that to be true.

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/introducing-text-based-editing-in-premiere-pro-beta/td-p/13552305

     

    In any event, you can install the Beta version in addition to the release version. Staff want input from real life users. There are often bugs that create problems, but usually it can be used for targeted work.

     

    This particular feature (text based editing) will not do what you want. But it is all related. And one of the things in recent Beta versions is the ability to "Import corrected transcript (txt)..." It requires starting from an exported transcript in the correct form. My tests so far are not encouraging for your larger purpose. But it will, soon if not already, take minor edits and correct the transcript. So the speech to text will give you timed words, and your edited transcript can fix the words in the transcript - maybe.

     

    @TeresaDemel I was trying to use the import edited transcript to help a user with a workflow similar to BrownFish's. Only the simplest of edits did anything other than totally mess up the transcript. Can you tell us if there are plans to move in the direction BrownFish wants? I assume not, but I know this is the type of input you look for.

     

    Stan

     

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