Why does Premiere sometimes break transcripts into short lines and other times group them into full

[Wonderverse]

Hello! I’m using Adobe Premiere Pro’s 2025 (25.2.3 Build 4 on Mac OS) built-in transcription tool (Text Panel → Transcribe Sequence) to generate transcripts from voice-over audio. I’m following the exact same steps for different sequences:

1. I select the audio track.
2. Click “Transcribe sequence.”
3. Let Premiere auto-generate the transcript.

But I’m seeing inconsistent behavior:

• In some sequences, the transcript is broken into very short lines—almost like individual sentence captions.

• In others, Premiere groups entire thoughts or blocks of narration into longer paragraphs, which is what I want.

Same workflow, same speaker, same language (English), and same version of Premiere. The only difference I’ve noticed might be the speech rhythm or pause timing, but the inconsistency is really frustrating.

Is this related to the “Detect speakers” checkbox during transcription? Or something else—like how Premiere interprets pauses or delivery style?

Has anyone else figured out how to force paragraph-style grouping consistently?

See below an example of the behavior that I don't want, the transcript is broken into very short lines with several errors.

And here is an example of the type of transcript that sometimes I get, and I want, longer paragraphs with almost no errors. Which I do on some instances, but I don't know how!

Thanks in advance!

[Stan Jones]

@Wonderverse,

There have been other reports of similar behavior, but none that seem as dramatic as your excellent examples. Bad outcome: transcript segments of only a few seconds each; good behavior, 20+ seconds per segment.

Did you elect speakers and if so, is it all identified as speaker 1? Or no speaker identification?

Stan

[Wonderverse]

Hi @Stan Jones,

Thanks for your reply. Reply to your questions below;

• Did you elect speakers? Yes, speakers are selected, but it doesn't seem to make a difference, in fact these examples are just with 1 speaker
• Is it all identified as speaker 1? Correct, if I apply the filter all text shows up under "Speaker 1"