Auto Transcript to Caption PP adding swear word that aren't in the audio

Report · Oct 19, 2023

Hi adobe,

Firstly, the auto transcribe and then convert to captions feature in Premiere is absolutely brilliant. It's completely changed my workflow, is intuitive, and fast. I love that it's been brough into the package.

However, on checking the srt from an auto generated sets of captions I noticed that Premiere had added in a swear word that wasnt said in the audio. I appreciate it's a complicated system and that it's just trying to find the best match to sometimes complex, diverse audio but this could have been terrible if missed.

I obveously always check the auto generated transcript/captions but what would be great is if the system had a filter that flagged any inserted swear words, or negative words that the user could define before the system started transcribing. There's obveously the potentilal for a swear word to be included in an edit but in this case the software misinterpreted an innocent word for an innapropriate one and a failsafe filter would be a nice addition to the process.

Many thanks,

Alan

Report · Oct 24, 2023

This is an issue for me also. It doesn't happen often, but the transcribing feature occassionally mis-transcribes a word into something awful. LOL. I use this feature to transcribe Closed Captions for a religious television broadcast. Unfortunately, if I don't scour the transcript... FCC banned words slip through... and I get a "not-so-nice" note from the TV network. I also get charged for them to correct the error before broadcast.

If there were some kind of filter available, that would be great and save me a lot of time readig through the transcript word for word.

Report · Oct 25, 2023

@Alan_Silvester @Billiam92407

Wow. Alan, I did not respond to your post because I wasn't sure what to say. (I still don't.) Upvoted.

Yes, this is an important option that goes along with pauses, filler words, etc. For none of those is there a user-defined option. But they are working on that actively in the Beta version. The feature request is really to identify/filter profanity whether it was actually said or invented by the transcription!

A workaround for now is to search the transcript/captions using the Text panel search. In the right side of the search area, it will show you the result, e.g. 1/2, etc. Unfortunately, it just shows nothing for a no find.

The other workaround is using some kind of saved/automated option to search the srt, e.g. a macro in Notepad++.

Stan

Report · Oct 25, 2023

@Stan Jones Thanks for your response and workaround suggestions. It's good to know this part of the software is being developed.

You're spot on, a simple profanity filter that could be customisable would be an excellent addition. I think most, if not all users will check transcripts but sometimes errors can slip through and as in @Billiam92407 case it can be costly.

Thanks all.

Report · Apr 29, 2025

I commented above. I am guessing the emergence of Ai now offers a better solution, but I now use this work around.

1. I export a text file of the transcript.

2. I open this free profanity detector. https://app.readable.com/text/profanity/

3. Open the text file and copy/paste it into the profanity detector.

4. Make corrections in the transcript if needed.

It only takes a few minutes... but it would be nice if something like that were built into Premier.

It would be nice if Premier added this type of filter