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cinziadubois
cinziadubois
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June 26, 2024
Question

Premiere Pro Transcribing into wrong language?

  • June 26, 2024
  • 8 replies
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Hi. I 'm a video editor and I love editing my videos using the transcribe and edit feature in the latest premier pro. I have done this multiple times, but for some reason, today for this particular footage and audio file, Premier Pro keeps auto-transcribing them into different languages.

 

I have the settings in auto-detect language and auto-transcribe into English (UK). The video file and accompanying audio file of the same footage are in English, yet it's auto-transcribed the video file in Mandarin and then the audio file of the same footage in Taiwanese. 

 

It's me speaking in the video and I'm a native English speaker. I have quit the program, restarted the computer and started a new project and sequence, but every time I upload these files into Premier, it transcribes them into these languages.

 

I filmed another video on the same SD card on the same day and transcribed that file into English. Similarly, I recorded the audio using Audition, and I filmed and recorded several videos that day, and none of those files are having the issue.

 

Does anyone know how I can fix this? I have just finished editing another video from footage from the same SD card a couple of hours ago and didn't have this issue. 

    8 replies

    djcheshier
    djcheshier
    Participant
    February 3, 2026

    I’m having an issue in the same area.  I’m editing my wife’s YouTube videos. she is speaking traditional Chinese and I would like have captions in both Chinese and English.  It always sees English as the primary language and the translation is all wrong, I mean not even close.  Then I when I add the second language of Chinese its completely wrong since it translated the bad English translation.

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    NAASHON
    Participant
    March 4, 2025

    I'm having the same problem. My English interviews are being transcribed into German despite setting the default language to English. When will this bug be fixed?

      Stan Jones
      Community Expert
      Stan JonesCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 4, 2025

      @NAASHON,

       

      I see little evidence that this bug has been replicated. The @nbechere post above was addressing the original poster's comments about using auto-detection:

      https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/premiere-pro-transcribing-into-wrong-language/m-p/14704167#M546381

       

      You and others, I think, are trying to transcribe to English. So far, no one has responded to questions to help us troubleshoot the issues.

       

      What version of PR are you using? What OS?

       

      What is set in your preferences? Edit -> Preferences -> Transcription. Is auto-detection on? What is the default language?

       

      In the Project Panel, if you right-click a clip that showed the problem, pick re-transcribe, and set the language as English, what happens when you transcribe?

       

      Stan

       

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      NAASHON
      Participant
      March 4, 2025

      Default language was set to English with auto detection off from the get go. But, after restarting PR it seems to have resolved... 

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      Mebude247201512kae
      Participant
      February 11, 2025

      @nbechere Is it possible to get localized Nigeria language packs in Premier Pro - especially (Yoruba, Igbo & Hausa)

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      Elaine37780798u3xl
      Participant
      February 4, 2025

      My video is completely in english but is being transcribed as chinese and korean... this is the first time I'm experiencing this issue.

      Stan Jones
      Community Expert
      Stan JonesCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 4, 2025

      @Elaine37780798u3xl,

       

      What version of PR are you using? What OS?

       

      What is set in your preferences? Edit -> Preferences -> Transcription. Is auto-detection on? What is the default language?

       

      In the Project Panel, if you right-click a clip that showed the problem, pick re-transcribe, and set the language as English, what happens when you transcribe?

      Stan

       

      Stan Jones
      Community Expert
      Stan JonesCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 10, 2024

      @Adilio_Toledo,

       

      What language is the clip? What language does it try to use?

       

      Does the manual re-transcribe work?

       

      Stan

       

        Adilio_Toledo
        Adilio_Toledo
        Participant
        December 10, 2024

        bug keeps existing

          Kevin-Monahan
          Community Manager
          Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
          Community Manager
          July 22, 2024

          The status of this bug report has been updated.

          Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
          nbechere
          Adobe Employee
          nbechere
          Adobe Employee
          June 26, 2024

          Hi, while the language detection usually is pretty acurate - there are rare cases where it can predict the wrong language. In these cases you can either re-transcribe the file manually (right-click it in the project panel and select Re-Transcribe) or turn off auto detection of language. If all your content is in English, I'd suggest to just use english as the default language and not use the language auto detection. 

          Please let me know if this helps with your issue. 

            Kevin-Monahan
            Community Manager
            Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
            Community Manager
            July 22, 2024

            Hi cinziadubois,

            Thanks for filing the bug report. Are you still experiencing this issue? Let the community know. Sorry for the frustation.

             

            Thanks,
            Kevin

            Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio
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