Assigning subtitles to different people doesn’t work as you’d expect.

@Robbie34135385e7mh,

> you’d expect that when you turn that transcription into captions and apply different text/font styles to each person

Yes, you would and, as you discovered, you'd be wrong. I link a feature request below. A poster there expressed the feeling of many users by saying "In the mean time it would be nice if Premiere warned you that labeling all of your speakers in your transcript is a waste of time, lol." Luckily, they've made progress, and I'll suggest a workaround that can help.

First, upvote this feature request:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/beta-add-speaker-names-and-2-lines-option-to-captions-from-transcription/idi-p/13515882

See my post there from 8/10/23 and 1/7/25:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/beta-add-speaker-names-and-2-lines-option-to-captions-from-transcription/idc-p/13998726#M10600

The following will work for burn-in captions. I'd have to think about a way to make it work for srt export with Speaker names. This is made possible by 2 features. In PR 24.4 they introduced Bulk Delete of speakers from transcripts (in sequence view). In PR 25.2, as part of the caption translation feature, they introduced the ability to keep multiple caption tracks visible. You may find a better way to accomplish your goals, but here is one method.

I'm going to assume that you have all speakers in one clip and on the same audio channel. If you have them on their own channels (or in different files), this may make the workaround easier.

But let's assume we have a clip that transcribes to Speaker 1 and Speaker 2. And you do edits with split/merge transcript segments and with edit Speaker names and assignments to get what you need. Name that initial sequence "Speaker 1 Sequence."

Be sure you have Speakers selected in the Transcript View Options. In the filter at the top of the transcript, select Speakers, in the Speakers drop-down, pick Speaker 2. Then click Delete, then Lift, then Delete all. We're using Lift, because we want to keep the spaces - other speakers will be speaking during those sections You now have only Speaker 1. (If you have 4 speakers, you'll have to do that multiple times so you end with only one speaker left.)

We have to avoid re-transcribing our original source or it will mess up other speakers. So 3 dots -> Generate static transcript. Separate speakers (even if only one), because we want to be able to label the speakers when they get combined. "Speaker 1 Sequence" now has an independent transcription that, even though it is "static," will behave as source for textg-based editing when that sequence is nested.

Drag the original video to the new icon to create a new sequence and call it "Speaker 2 Sequence." Because the speaker deletions only occur in the Sequence view of the source transcription, all the speakers are in the transcript. Repeat the deletion, removing Speaker 1 so only Speaker 2 is in this sequence. And create the static transcription as before.

Create a third sequence from the original clip, mute or delete the audio, copy paste the audio only from the Speaker sequences, being careful to overwrite them at the correct starting point. You can select all of one speaker and adjust for sync.

You can create captions by speaker in the speaker sequences, then copy paste. Or, in the final sequence, you can mute all but one speaker and create captions for each. Each speaker will be in their own caption track, and you can apply a different caption track style as you wish.

Let me know if this works or if you have questions.

Stan