Speaker 1 audio is on A1, Speaker 2 audio is on A2. I am only seeing transcription for Speaker 1.

Helpful thread! The issue with multiple speaker audio and missing transcription is well explained. The shared solutions are practical and should help users manage audio channels and improve transcription accuracy effectively.

It sounds like you’re running into a common limitation when transcribing multiple audio channels in Adobe Premiere Pro (v25.5): the transcription tool only displays the transcript from the highest unmuted audio track (e.g., A1), even if multiple channels have been transcribed.

Quick Fix Options:

• Mute A1 to view the transcript for A2. Premiere prioritizes the lowest-numbered unmuted track for display.

• If both speakers are in the same media file, right-click the clip in the Project Panel and choose “Audio Options → Breakout to Mono.” This will create separate clips for each channel (e.g., Channel 1 and Channel 2). Then Re-Transcribe each clip both transcripts will be preserved individually.

• If A1 and A2 are separate audio files, transcribe each source clip separately in the Project Panel. You can then edit or display the one you want by muting or adjusting track priority.

Bonus tip:

If you need to see both transcripts at once, some editors export each transcript separately, or use caption tracks stacked at different positions to keep Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 visible. It’s not perfect, but it’s the Speaker Cleaner workaround in Premiere right now.

@kazgamble,

This is what I have found about overlapping audio tracks and which transcription shows. I don't think we have the tools we need  yet.

If Track 1 is muted, Track 2 shows, etc. Solo does not have this effect. The only way to show Track 4 transcript is to mute Tracks 1-3. Deleting a section of the audio track allows a higher-numbered track to “show.” Setting Audio Gain to -99 works like mute. Keyframing volume does not work.

If there is very little overlap of the speakers, you can create a mix transcription attached to the sequence video. Where the overlap occurs, you can use muting to check each speaker.

Now that you can show multiple caption tracks, I have experimented with creating captions for each track and moving each track to a different position so I can see them. This is not very satisfactory: captions do not update with the transcription.

Stan

@kazgamble,

Edit: Sorry I didn't register that you told me they were separate audio files and they are both transcribed. I'll post a further response.

I responded to your post in another thread, where your issue was that you only see re-transcribe. I responded: "Re-transcribe is usually greyed out because you are looking at the sequence/program monitor view of a source media transcription. Reveal the clip in the Project Panel, right-click, and pick re-transcribe from there. If that is not it, post back.''

There are multiple issues that may be at play when you have multiple tracks or multiple channels.

1 - If A1 and A2 are from the same media file. If both are not transcribed, select the second track file in the Project Panel, right-click, and pick transcribe. Now both are transcribed. BUT the only transcription that shows is the highest (i.e. A1 here) Audio track that is not muted. If that is your situation, post back for strategies.

2 - If A1 and A2 are from the same media file. There can be only one transcription active for a clip. There are 2 workarounds:

2a - Duplicating the file in PR. Note that the duplicate shows “re-transcribe” as the option and has the same channel transcript as the original file. If re-transcribed to a different channel, the original file keeps its original transcript, and the duplicate now shows the re-transcription with the new channel.

2b (my preferred option) - Clip -> Audio Options -> Breakout to Mono. For a 4-channel file, this creates 4 clips named [Original name with extension] + Channel + Channel number. For example, for a file with 4 mono channels named “Test File 4 channel.mov”, the breakouts are named “Test File 4 channel.mov Channel 1,” … Channel 2, etc. They all inherit the transcript associated with the original file if one was created. When you use "Re-Transcribe," they correctly do not prompt for the channel, because they are no longer multichannel clips. All 4 can be selected in the Project Panel and Re-Transcribed in one action, and each of the 4 has its correct transcript.

I can elaborate once I know your situation.

Stan