Speech to Text in Arabic

Dear R Neil Haugen,

Thank you for replying. I work in UAE, for a university, so many students are frustrated too, and can't find a sensible reason behind all the exclusion of 350M speakers of Arabic compared to 4.5M of a Scandinavian country.

Plus, all other competitive NLEs have it, even free online NLE like CapCut, InVideo, etc.

However, great reply from you.

Well, as I keep saying - especially now that Adobe have increased their pricing,  soon most Premiere Pro users (maybe 2 years max.) will shift to DaVinci.

Good day sir.

Remember, I'm another user, and like all users of any of these complex apps, have my own frustrations with it at times. I have no more ability to force change than anyone.

And of course, no clue about the relative number of Norwegian/Icelandic/Danish users (nearly identical languages mostly)  compared to Arabic than any other users.

I do know Adobe has offices and employees working about everywhere on the planet ... one of the intersting things about working with staffers. And at Adobe's big MAX event, there's always a pretty decent contingent of users attending from across the Arabic language area ... Syria through Jordan and Egypt and on. So there are definitely users and staffers in Arabic countries.

Again, I understand the frustration, and totally sympathize. Arabic is far from the only language not currently supported ... and yea, that outright sucks. It's also one of the most beautiful languages to listen to ... I've Arabic friends & acquaintances. I love to hear them talk, even though there's some of the sounds I'd never be able to learn at this point.

But it's so beautiful to listen to. 

Emotional language? Where and how? Well tell me something: since you are percentage-driven, honestly, how many users are Norwegian compared to those who are Arabic users? And yet, there is a Norwegian language transcription! How is that working for you in terms of percentage?

I understand the frustration, certainly. There's a lot of users that work with Arabic, and other middle-east area languages.

I do find the emotional language odd ... it isn't that 'they' care or don't care. I would guess that like so many decisions, it's simply looking at the percentage of the total user base versus the cost in developer time, then placed in the list of the bajillion or so needed and/or requested changes/additions.

Many of my long-requested color things are acknowledged by the devs to be definitely a very useful thing ... but ... for a small enough sub-set of users, I would not hold my breath ... sigh.

It doesn't look like Adobe cares about adding Arabic transcription anytime soon, at least not to me...

I ended up using SaharaSub after seeing a recommendation on this thread, it's a plugin and it is paid, but I find it worthy enough to keep using it.

no solution yet, bring it up again

now DaVinci has transcribe and translate captions in many languages INCLUDING ARABIC. did you hear that adobe? + more AI features that the new Premiere update feels embarrassing.

Now that Premiere Pro has a new version (25.2; although we are in April and usually they go by the month, i.e., 25.4!), still no Arabic language for either translation or captioning. After 2 years of complaints, it seems Adobe is XXX, and they are purposely ignoring tons of requests to include Arabic language in the list when in transcript mode or translation.

I bet you, and hear me loud, many people will switch to other NLEs asap.

You have no respect for 350 million people and a lot of Arabic users of Adobe.

We do not use offending language: mod

I use SaharaSub, a plugin for Premiere Pro that lets you automatically add subtitles in Arabic. It’s convenient because once you install it, it works directly in Premiere. The subtitles are pretty accurate, and any small errors are easy to fix right inside Premiere. I didn't try it yet, but they added support for After Effects, I think it could be really useful too.

Hi, Kevin. Just curious, what metric does this thread/request need to reach to be considered for very near implementation?