Feature Request: Transcript Speakers

@Rob Mize,

A static transcription of the final edit should work and "should" identify all 8 speakers. But that goal is not achieved for some/many transcriptions. Your idea of using the individual channels to inform the speaker selection is good. But I suspect it still requires 1) creating a transcription for each channel, 2) combining all the separate transcripts into one.

For 2, the speakers must be identified as something other than the current default for all separate transcriptions - "Speaker 1" - e.g. Channel 1 Speaker 1. There needs to be some method for flagging overlapping speakers (timecodes overlap) and a filter to allow stepping through and determining how to edit, etc.

Number 1 is supported currently, but only after breaking out each channel to a separate file. But number 2 is not supported.

One reason your method of combining to one transcript is useful is that there is no current way to see more than one multi-channel transcription at once in the timeline for editing.

For my thoughts on multichannel transcription as this was being introduced in the Beta, see this post:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/audio-track-selection-for-source-media-transcription/idc-p/14284739#M12271

@TeresaDemel @mattchristensen Who's the right team to flag on this? Are there any developments that make workflows more flexible? The enabling of multiple caption tracks was big, but not useful at this transcription stage, and captions still don't carry any speaker labeling.

Stan

@Rob Mize,

Upvoted. A very important set of issues.

Thanks for the additional info.

Are you saying that using mix, PR identifies only 4 speakers of the 8?

Are you seeing anything like this:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/increase-number-of-tracked-speakers-in-transcription/idi-p/14123162

Obviously, you did not reach any limit to the number of speakers, but I never understood the stacking. It implied to me that PR knew there were more speakers and somehow could track this as names were edited?

Stan

@Rob Mize,

Are the 8 tracks each an audio channel? How are you transcribing - using the mix option?

There are multiple issues to getting a total workflow that is flexible.

Does transcription of any individual channel or mix correctly identify all the speakers? (It should, but may not.)

Can you transcribe individual channels, identifying a single or multiple speakers on that channel? (This feature was added, so you can, but you can't combine the separate transcripts into one transcript.)

If you have multiple transcripts of individual channels, can you see all transcripts in a timeline, or only the top-most audio? (Only the top-most, unmuted shows. Any other transcript is simply missing, until you make some change.)

Stan