Transcribe audio source with multiple tracks with different speakers on each track?

[dquinndotnet]

I have a multitrack audio file with 5 tracks. There's a different speaker isolated to each track. When I use the PR transcription tool, it generates a text file with Speakers 1 - 5, but it often mixes up which speaker is which, not respecting the fact that each speaker is on his own audio track in the file.

Is it possible to tell the transcription tool which speaker is which, mapping them to the individual tracks in the audio file? Or barring that, transcribe each track separately and then somehow merge the resultant transcriptions into one file?

[Kevin-Monahan · Accepted solution]

Hi alkahest,

Thanks for the message. Please upvote this feature request: https://adobe.ly/4m6cWSf. I think that's what you wanted, right? I hope we get the feature soon.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Stan Jones]

@dquinndotnet,

The answer is No (there's no way to map and then transcribe once) and Yes (you can transcribe each track separately, but only one track at a time).

Transcribing multi-channel audio clips was improved a lot by the process described in the feature request Kevin points to. And there is more to be done.

When you transcribe that clip, if you use automatic transcription, it will pick "Mix" as the transcription option. As long as speakers don't talk over each other, this can work. But as you say, it may not get the speakers correct.

If you right-click in the Project Panel (or otherwise use a manual transcription option), you should see a channel selection, that allows you to pick a track. But if you do this and then do it again for another track, it overwrites it.

A workaround I describe in that feature request is:

Select the multitrack file in the Project Panel and Clip -> Audio Options -> Extract Audio. This creates as many files as there are audio tracks, named [Filename] + Extracted.wav, [Filename] + Extracted_1.wav, etc. Note that the numbers are in revers order to the audio tracks in a sequence. For example, if there are 2 audio tracks, the file named ...Extracted_1.wav will be audio track one and the file named without the _1 will be track two.

Note that anytime transcribed clips are on different tracks in a timeline, the higher-ranking track (e.g. audio track 1 is higher than audio track 2) will be active. To "see" a track below it, you must mute it, or cut a section out of it.

I can't look for more on workarounds at the moment. I'll look later today.

Stan