transcription: factors that make it faster or slower?

Report · Oct 08, 2023

I'm wondering if there are any factors that make transcription faster or slower? (For example. what else you have running on your computer, available memory, available hard disk space, other factors?)

I'm currently on version 23.6, and I have the checkbox for Automatically transcribe clips checked in Preferences. Everything that I've been transcribing is in English.

It eventually gets there, but sometimes I just have to leave it running overnight for it to get to done. So I'm wondering if there's anything else I could be doing on my end to reduce the time required for transcription.

Thanks for reading!

Report · Oct 09, 2023

Hi there!

Thank you for writing in. Are you experiencing this issue with a specific project? Could you share your system details (OS, CPU, RAM, GPU)? Have you already tried resetting preferences and deleting cache files?

KR

Report · Oct 15, 2023

Thanks Kartika!

Thanks for the suggestion to reset preferences and delete cache files. I tried both yesterday, and neither seems to have changed the (long) times it takes to transcribe.

I tried transcribing a 2 minute test clip yesterday, and it didn't finish until a few hours later. (I had it running for two hours before I went to bed, and it wasn't done at that point, but was done by morning.) I also noticed in other tests that Premiere will say "Transcribing... (a few seconds remaining...)" and be displaying that for hours.

I'll note that I am now on the most recent version of Premiere, 24.0. My OS is Windows 10, CPU is an Intel Core i7-6560U at 2.20GHz, RAM is 16 GB. GPU is Intel Iris Graphics 540 (in the CPU).

Any ideas on what may be happening? I appreciate your time and assistance!

Report · Oct 15, 2023

Sorry, but I think the answer is in your computer specs. That is a truly ancient rig there ... a 2 core, 4 thread 2.2Hz CPU from 2015, past "service life" from Intel, and with only 16Gb of RAM ... Premiere is barely able to run on that rig.

A modern NLE like Premiere or Resolve or Avid needs more ooomph ... it's just the way it is.

Report · Oct 15, 2023

Thanks Neil for the thoughts - I appreciate it.

An ancient rig it is indeed. 🙂 [insert pirate "argh!" here] And I agree probably way overdue for an upgrade. But you might be surprised and how much I'm able to create in Premiere on it, for materials for classes I teach. Auto transcription is the first time I've run into a technical barrier that has been a notable issue for what I use Premiere for.

It may be that the computer specs already have me at the limit on auto transcription performance on my machine. But I'm curious if anyone has ideas on things to try here (other than what Kartika already recommended trying on resetting preferences and deleting cache files)?

Report · Oct 15, 2023

At this point, I think doing this when you're going to be on a break or overnight might be an idea. That's basic CPU work going on there, so not sure how it would be expedited.

Report · Jun 16, 2024

upgrade is good advice, yet i am having same problem as stated here and my specs are.
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor 3.60 GHz
Installed RAM 40.0 GB
GPU= AMD rx 7600xt 16gb
MOBO= ASROCK BaseBoard Product B450M Pro4 R2.0

any idea what i can do to speed up transcribe??

Report · Jul 10, 2024

What is your storage device bro? Where do you store your project files that you're editing? It has to be internally and NVMe PCIE 3.0 from SSD upgrade is recommended. If you are already using NVME then just use that and just transfer your old projects to your external. Premiere Pro needs to run inside the internal drive.

Report · Dec 17, 2023

As an epilogue - I forgot the exact timing of events, but over the course of several weeks after I posted this question (thanks again Kartika and Neil for the replies), the speed of transcription improved radically. I don't think it was anything I did, and I'm guessing it was Premiere improvements. Now it works great on my machine, and it significantly changed the way I can work - thanks to all who made it happen!

Report · Feb 22, 2024

On latest Studio Ultra, with maximum everything, CPU, GPU, etc...

I've got 5 2 hour theater shows, all now transcribed and I've got massive lag, like many minutes to load a sequence. To make matters worse, matchframe to the ISO audio track to which the transcription is linked also takes minutes to load. Then if I change a speaker name from unknown to something else, it takes another few minutes to update the transcript... This is horrifying functionality given how powerful the machine is: I've got four quad splits and with 4K footage, running in real time with a lot and a bunch of audio plug-ins for premix and mastering on the fly.
Any thoughts on this? Do I just have to work in 10 minutes scenes?

Thanks!

Report · Mar 27, 2024

hey big man, glad to be the solution here... I had a pc that was worse than yours(i5 6th gen, 16gb ram, intel intergrated graphics for sure) but the transcribe feature was working just fine and its actually the computer that made me start loving the feature. shifiting to a macbook pro this year and trying the feature only to find that its slow, telling me hours to complete, my solution was changing the transcription language to english in my case which was the language being spoken and turning on the auto detect(optional i guess). just know mine was transcribing english words to italian😩. so its now doing it in 2 minutes as usual👌.

Report · Sep 05, 2024

ti amo

Report · Mar 28, 2024

then after that youre gonna have to insstall creative cloud and for my case it started installing the transcription english package automatically