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valeriiege
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August 6, 2026
Question

When does Adobe plan to improve its Speech-to-Text feature?

  • August 6, 2026
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I am a very, very long-time user of Adobe, and I use speech-to-text almost every week. But that feature sucks.

Adobe has improved on many areas, but speech-to-text is awful. I will give an example that might sound interesting: Adobe is very bad at transcribing English when it is not perfectly clear. I have a client who has a black-dude accent. Cool dude. Yet Adobe cannot understand what he is saying. But Google Gemini does. So if Gemini is able to transcribe English with an accent, but Adobe can’t, this must be improved, right?

It sometimes even struggles with very simple English. One of my clients clearly says "Jonah," but Adobe always transcribes it as "John." I have to spend a lot of my time fixing everything manually. That’s too much time. 

I think Adobe needs to take this as an inquiry and fix it in the next patch. Work with an AI tool -I don’t know- but please fix this.

    1 reply

    Community Manager
    August 7, 2026

    Hey valeriiege,
    Sorry you're having such a frustrating experience. I can certainly understand how spending time correcting transcripts every week would become tedious.


    Unfortunately, I can't really answer the "when" part of your question, since we don't have visibility into future product plans or release schedules.


    From what you've described, though, this sounds like something the team would want to investigate further. Whether it's a bug or an opportunity to improve Speech-to-Text, the best place for it is our Bugs forum so the product team can review the feedback.


    If you're okay with it, I'd be happy to move your post there. If you can also include a short sample (assuming you're able to share one), along with your Premiere Pro version and the language/model you're using for transcription, that would give the team more information to work with. Here's a post describing the information we'd need from you.


    Thanks for taking the time to share your experience.

    Cheers,
    Kevin