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jack_6849
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September 21, 2025
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How do I get the captions to indicate who is speaking, when I have multiple speakers?

  • September 21, 2025
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I'm am sure I am missing something obvious, but I can't figure out how to geth the caption to indicate when speakers change. I'd like something like this:

 

"[Speaker 1] So question, blah blah blah"

"[Speaker 2] Answer, blah blah"

 

I have transcribed the audio, so the text distinguishes between speakers and have edits the speaker names and generated text transcription, but it never shows up.

 

I know there is a way because people are talking about it and I have looked at a bunch of videos, but everyone acts as if it's automatically done and they don't show up either in the monitor or the exported MP4. . At one point, I was fiddling with markers, but that didn't make sense to me and I think I was going down the wrong path.

 

Can someone just give me a step-by-setp account of how to do this? I'm new at Premier and still need baby steps. 

 

I'm using the latest version: 25.5.0 (build 13). 

I use Windoes 11, which is also updated.  

 

FIles with settings attached. 

 

This is very frutsrating...thank you in advance. 

Correct answer Stan Jones

@jack_6849,

 

Still not an option. See my post here suggesting a possible (messy) workaround:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/assigning-subtitles-to-different-people-doesn-t-work-as-you-d-expect/m-p/15505439#M571008

 

That user's focus was on assigning different styles. I do not address there your specific request, which is the common request: adding the speaker name/designation to the beginning of each caption.

 

Workaround for that would be exporting an SRT from each of the speaker sequence caption tracks, using a macro (in Notepad++ or similar) to add the speaker name to each caption; the reimporting the SRT.

 

I did say messy.

 

Upvote the feature request there (vote button at the very top of the thread). I'm surprised they have not added this as an option yet.

 

Stan

 

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Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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September 21, 2025

@jack_6849,

 

Still not an option. See my post here suggesting a possible (messy) workaround:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/assigning-subtitles-to-different-people-doesn-t-work-as-you-d-expect/m-p/15505439#M571008

 

That user's focus was on assigning different styles. I do not address there your specific request, which is the common request: adding the speaker name/designation to the beginning of each caption.

 

Workaround for that would be exporting an SRT from each of the speaker sequence caption tracks, using a macro (in Notepad++ or similar) to add the speaker name to each caption; the reimporting the SRT.

 

I did say messy.

 

Upvote the feature request there (vote button at the very top of the thread). I'm surprised they have not added this as an option yet.

 

Stan

 

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