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Jeffstez
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March 16, 2022
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Speech to Text: Creating a marker for each word

  • March 16, 2022
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The new 'speech to text' to create captions is great, but I can't seen any options to change the size of each individual caption that is created. I want to be able to use the text-to-speech function to (a) extract text from audio speech, (b) set a marker at the start of every word to act as a basis for doing word-by-word animation. 

 

Is this possible?

 

Thanks!

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Stan Jones
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Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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March 16, 2022

No, I don't think it is possible to add a marker. But there are options to structure the captions in the "Create Captions" dialogue. These include maximum length in characters, minimum duration in seconds, gap between captions, and single/double lines.

 

Feature request:

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro

 

Stan

 

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JeffstezAuthor
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March 17, 2022

Hi Stan,

 

Thanks for that. Do you know if the timing data that 'speech to text' is available through the Premiere API? I'd be interested in seeing if I could get a script written that could take the timing data and create markers.

 

I also looked at the minimum character length. I thought that if I set the minimum character length to "1" that Premiere wouldn't truncate words - so whole words would be put into each caption. Unfortunately the lowest character legnth is 7. I didn't check what happens with 8 letter words.

 

This is very nearly an awesome feature. I sense all the data is there, it just needs to be made available. Grateful for any other thoughts about how I might achieve this. I tried a trial of the textsyncr plugin for After Effects but didn't have great results. Is there anything else? 

Thanks!

Stan Jones
Community Expert
Stan JonesCommunity Expert
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March 17, 2022

I have not played with this enough to have any other thoughts.

 

@Bruce Bullis Can you comment on the API options?

 

Stan

 

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