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Charlie 27
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May 2, 2024
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Adobe Premiere transcription accuracy & syntax

  • May 2, 2024
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Adobe Premiere transcription problems/improvement suggestion: 

(This following is all on good quality dialogue using good mics, clear British accents, no background noise, etc).

 

1. Biggest problem that takes a lot of time to correct - punctuation is poor, it often puts a full-stop in unnatural places (that should be a comma, for a sub-clause in a sentence), but then it does not capitalise the first word in the following sentence (whether correctly or incorrectly a new sentence). 

This seems a simple coding fix..? If This Then That. Then I wouldn’t need to go in and correct as often.

Many times in spoken language, a comma, or a new sentence doesn't matter so much for understanding the dialogue. but a full stop then no capitalisation breaks the flow and often creates ambiguity in meaning. sometimes requiring a second read of a sentence. 

(See what I did there).
Also, my clients often want grammatically correct captions/transcriptions! So I gotta change it… Sometimes captions are just an aid to the audio, but some people rely entirely on the captions/transcript.

 

2. The editing transcription process is a little cumbersome - you need to double click on a word in a paragraph to make that whole paragraph editable (if you’re in a hurry and miss, instead double-clicking on a space, it doesn’t open), then press escape to save the change and go out so you can continue to Play and review. It’s just more clicks and time. I’m not sure the exact solution (or am I missing a function?), but something to work on for future versions.  

 

3.  I have language set to British English but it still uses American spelling in many words, eg “z” instead of “s”. Need more options in Preferences.

 

4. Then there is general mis-hearing/mistaking words, understandable this will happen at times, but it is less accurate than the best AI out there, hoping Adobe’s transcription will improve! Or integrate OpenAI’s Whisper? I’d love the option of using remote/cloud large model for better accuracy. (I am separately looking into using Whisper then importing .srt, but there are pros/cons to that). 

I quite understand technical language may not be recognised and accept correcting that (eg I film/edit/caption a lot of medical conferences/interviews).

 

I tested the transcription with a friend's much newer PC, compared to my 10-year old iMac - no improvement in accuracy on the above problems. Speed isn’t the issue in this case - even my old iMac creates the transcriptions perfectly fast enough - accuracy is the important issue for me. 

Other than this, editing from transcriptions is a great help in Premiere (searching phrases/words, jumping to places in the video etc), just need the accuracy to improve! 

Correct answer Stan Jones

A user reported this without reference to a version. I checked 24.5.0, and it is fixed there. That's probably the first Release version for the fix.

 

Stan

 

13 replies

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Stan JonesCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
August 13, 2024

A user reported this without reference to a version. I checked 24.5.0, and it is fixed there. That's probably the first Release version for the fix.

 

Stan

 

Inspiring
November 11, 2025

I may be going mad here... but I can't find a way to commit a correction to a transcript. I can edit it by either double-clicking, clicking the pen icon, or hovering over it with Enter. But having corrected the text, nothing actually commits the change - I've tried Enter, numpad Enter, Esc, clicking away from the text block, etc.

(On a side note: Esc is counterintuitive, I've never understood why Indesign is alone in using it as the "OK" option - please don't have Premiere follow it!)

To be clear, I'm trying to correct the text as transcribed, not perform text-based editing. I'm on Premiere 25.5.0 build 13.

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 11, 2025

@NoMagnolia,

 

Are you working in a sequence that was duplicated from another? There's a bug that is fixed in Beta.

 

But yes, simply typing the change and hitting Esc should keep your change.

 

Even if it doesn' t change, if you save, close the project, and reopen, does the change show?

 

Stan

 

 

 

Kerstin Ebert
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
July 11, 2024

Hi @Blue-Marble

 

here you'll find a list of keyboard shortcuts for Text-based Editing: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/text-based-editing-faq.html -> under the section "What keyboardshort cuts are supported".

 

Hope that helps!

Best,

Kerstin

Known Participant
July 10, 2024

@Stan Jones Is there a list of shortcuts for text-based editing? The enter key is nice to know, but what about selecting without the mouse?

Charlie 27
Participant
June 5, 2024

...aaand finally got round to testing, well, using on a real project. Just transcribed an hour of (health industry) conference/seminar presentation by many different people (with a mic so good sound quality). I've not proofread it yet, but skimming through the transcription I can see full-stops are followed by capitalised words, plus anecdotally it looks like it recognises the messy sub-sub-clauses vs where a sentence/idea really does end, that people speak in when unscripted off-the-cuff. So this will make my proofreading much quicker and easier - thank you! 

Charlie 27
Participant
May 31, 2024

Awesome! I haven't had a chance to test yet but I see @Stan Jones did, thank you so much for fixing the bug! 

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 30, 2024

I can confirm that all full stops were followed by upper case in my sample in Beta 24.6.0.8. I checked 24.4.1, and, as expected, there are errors.

 

Stan

 

Kerstin Ebert
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
May 29, 2024

Hello @Charlie 27 ,

I'm happy to share that the bug where some words at the start of a sentence are not upper case is fixed in in the latest Beta, 24.6.0x8. Please try it out and let me know if it works!

 

Best,

Kerstin

Inspiring
May 8, 2024

I agree about #1 and #4. On your 2nd point about double-clicking to edit text: At the top of the text panel there is a pencil icon for "edit active text". While it's 1. not intuative, and 2. not quick, it is arguably one less click.

 

My suggestion for Adobe is to allow "edit active text" to be assigned to a keyboard shortcut. That way there is no moving your mouse to click a button, just a simple key-bind that speeds up that process.  

Charlie 27
Participant
May 7, 2024

Thanks Kerstin! 

 

I just did another transcript last night that I haven't proofread yet. Still lots of full-stop then lower-case start to next sentence. This one was on a pretty fast PC, vs my old Mac on the previous videos/transcripts. Maaaybe slightly fewer mistakes but still 30-50% looks wrong skimming through. Not sure if spec of computer makes a difference, doesn't seem to. (Latest version of Premiere on both systems).

Thanks for looking into it!

Kerstin Ebert
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
May 7, 2024

Hi @Charlie 27,

 

thank you for your detailed feedback, we appreciate the input!

I checked the issues on my end and I also noticed that randomly some words following a full stop are not upper case. It doesn't happen all the time – but it happens, so it's a bug and I logged it. I'll keep you posted once I have an update on this!

 

Thanks,

Kerstin