Speech to Text in Arabic

Canva has it, Arabic (transcribe +caption translation). So shame on Adobe.

Right now, the Auto-Transcribe and Auto-Caption tools don’t recognize Arabic.
We spend hours using external AI sites or manual typing — which kills creative flow

Imagine if Premiere could:

• Automatically transcribe Arabic dialogue

• Generate accurate Arabic subtitles (RTL)

• Detect dialects like Jordanian, Egyptian, Gulf, etc.

This would change everything for thousands of Arabic filmmakers, YouTubers, and editors.

Vote now for full Arabic transcript & captions support in Adobe Premiere Pro

I would also agree that we need the ability to translate to Arabic within PPro - is this on the roadmap please?

The Premiere staff has made some amazing progress in many areas of the app. I'll give them credit for that. As an editing app, it's still deeper and broader in capabilities than Resolve, and getting nearly even with Avid. Including far more keyboard shorts for example than Resolve.

The BlackMagic paradigm of locking down the UI for any user adjustments, apparently saves them a ton of dev time when they do make changes. A couple of the BM devs have talked around that issue. 

Adobe's giving us a very user customizable UI comes at a routine cost in dev time ... even if there are some UI things we can't control in Premiere (like on screen text size!) that are simply bizarre.

I've worked in both over the last decade plus, and yes teach pro users ... and I find Resolve incredibly frustrating, as I struggle to remember where all the on-screen menus are buried ... and to me, it's backside ugly. A good friend thinks it's gorgeous and has the most intuitive UI ever. Yup, we are all different!

As to relative percentages, I'll add a couple things to think about. First, I don't understand why the population of the country matters so much to some ... as it's the user licenses/user base that is the primary factor here. How many actual users of the app is what matters most.

Next, the great comment about r-t-l languages that improvements would affect a number of them is spot on. And linked to that, note ... Norwegian is not a completely separate language. As I noted above, there are only smallish differences between Norwegian, Danish, and Icelandic, so development there pretty much allows use across all three.

But again, it seems it is the user base that counts.

And finally, I've been told the basics of setting dev priority, which includes seven or eight major metrics (Adobe is huge on quantifiable metrics) ... and still, it's a bizarre foggy bottom as a user much of the time.

True. I totally agree with you. But this issue and post has been around a long time, and while other free NLEs have the Arabic transcript, Adobe can't figure it out yet? Or, they are too lazy to do any meaningful addition or development. They immerse themselves with futile UI facelift i.e., the color highlight of activated tools (on the timeline and in other worksapces: AUDIO, has gone from easily seen visually - blue, to a white activated and grey not activated, which is hard to distinguish. 

Why they screw things up I don't know. Monay wasted on silly things instead of proper development. DaVinci latest version has 100 AI assisted tools, how many Premiere has? Less than 10. 

Unfortunately, Premiere Pro still suffers from serious bugs related to right-to-left (RTL) text support. I reported these issues to Adobe years ago, including a detailed demo video highlighting the problems. The team acknowledged them at the time, but unfortunately, nothing has been fixed since.

Talking about percentages, supporting Right-to-Left languages doesn't mean you will support Arabic Language only, rather the support will include all Languages uses scripts similar to Arabic alphabets such as Farsi / Urdu / Pashto / Kurdish / Malay / Uyghor, hence the user numbers will certainly grow massively.

Surely, text-to-speech is something else and had nothing to do with above percentage comparison. Having said that, if third party plugins and online services can do the job, why can't Adobe do it, they have an army of developers, it is better than losing business to DaVinci. Similarly Adobe Acrobat as an expensive application and is considered as leader in the market lacks so much Arabic support whereas much cheaper "competitor" applications supports Arabic better!

@Carlos5C66 I too work and stay in the UAE.

Adobe had held surveys over the years in our region (Middle East), they come here in person or online. We had a fruitful meeting with a group of Adobe relevant technical and business staff last Wednesday in order to convey the message and see the development of new Right-to-Left and Arabic / Farsi / Urdu languages features. 

We discussed the feature "Text to Speach" which is being discussed in this thread. I'm not defending Adobe here as I'm not a staff, but I can say that Adobe are working on several RTL features but mainly on the Adobe Text Engine more than anything.

Beside Adobe's reagional office in Riyadh – Saudi Arabia, Adobe staff from San Jose are visiting Dubai early next November, and they would need to meet users, kindly reach out to me to connect you directly with the visiting team in order to present your case as well as other users in the region.