How do I get separate transcriptions for each speaker when they are on two separate audio tracks.

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September 28, 2025
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I have Premiere Pro video with two speakers and each speaker is on a separate audio track. What is the best way to get each audio track transcribed separately?

I tried asking Adobe's AI chat system and it is absolutely useless.

Stan Jones

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@bobw111,

Are these in their own separate files? If a single file, right-click the file in Project Panel and pick "Transcribe." Pick Re-transcribe if you already transcribed it. Do you see a "Channel Selection" option? Do you see the channels you expect?

If any of this does not appear as you expect, post back.

If they are in one file, you can have only one transcript at a time. So I use Clip -> Audio Options -> Breakout to Mono. That does not create files on disk, but they will keep their transcription. Note that, if you already transcribed the original clip, each such breakout will start with that transcription. Just pick re-transcribe.

Stan

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bobw111Author

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After some more testing I've noticed that PrPro isn't doing a very good job of identifying speakers. It seems to confuse the voices of the separate speakers even though they are on separate audio tracks. I think the only way I am going to get a reliable transcript is to create two separate projects for the video clip, using audio track A1 on one project and audio track A2 on the other project. Then transcribe each project and export the resulting text out of each project as a csv file. Then use Excel to import the two CSV files in, then sort the excel file by time stamp (possibly having to add a column in each csv file to identify speaker by. Seems like a lot of work when I've got each speaker on a completely separate audio track. Separate tracks for each speaker should make the transcription process easier, not harder.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

@bobw111,

First, I'm going to post what I had drafted earlier, but only finished just now. Then I'll address your new posts.

Turn OFF autotranscription.

> I found the setting in premiere to separate individual speakers transcription text,

You have the same selection in non-automatic transcriptions. What this does is to try to detect each speaker, and to label them (Speaker 1, etc). This can work for you, and has some advantages over separate transcriptions by audio channel. try that first.

I find it easiest to control what is happening by transcribing from the Project Panel.

Right-click your clip in the Project Panel, and pick MIX from the audio channel options and "separate speakers." Mix looks at all the audio channels in the source clip. As long as the 2 speakers do not talk over each other, it should separate the speakers well. Double-click the clip in the Project Panel (so it opens in the Source Monitor), and switch to the Text panel/Transcript tab. Edit the speaker names there. (You cannot edit speaker names of a source media transcript once in timeline/sequence view.) And go ahead and edit the content so each speaker is associated with their content. You can split segments as needed. There will always be some editing needed for speakers, but getting separate transcriptions by speaker combined into one will have other problems.

This will create a single transcription with both speakers.

Stan

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