Provide a way to delete a transcription

Have you tried “render and replace”? Select your audio clips in the timeline and right click that. It did the trick for me!

Please please please please add a way to delete transcripts. I can’t keep editing like this. I can’t keep bloating my file sizes. This is insane. I can’t even edit the timeline anymore. I need an asset from one project so I keep making projects and the transcript follows like a virus. My 30KB project file is now 148.5MB. My other project file was 26.7MB to 165.6MB.

Please fix this Adobe holy sh********************

Holy s**t. Is this a feature request posted over 3 years ago? So 2023? And still no possible way to manage transcripts or bloat on file in 2026? That’s incredible. Good job Adobe.

For me, this matters because transcripts bloat a project. I had an 18 MB project, and after transcribing all of my audio it grew to 60 MB and became very slow to open and save. There was no way to remove that bloat, and using Ignore Transcript does not help.

I also did not realise transcripts could take up so much space, so I ran a test. I imported an audio file into a project. At that stage, the project was 8 KB. After transcribing it, the project file increased to 118 KB.

Apply the same math to a feature length documentary with hours of transcriptions, and you can see why there needs to be an easy way to shed transcripts.

Still no way of deleting the transcript? 

@Stan Jones Thanks for the help!
Last time I used this, there was no translation feature yet, so I wasn't even aware. Also, I had to film people in 3 different languages, having a "default" language doesn't make much sense in that case.

The only thing that worked was:

1. restore the untranscribed version from cloud
2. change default language
3. restart
4. transcribe

Interestingly enough, even though I was prepared to manually transcribe, since re-transcribe from the clip bin never worked before, the engine automatically switched languages and did a pretty good job on horrifically pronounced English. Probably because I had it set to automatically switch languages. 

Re-transcribe never worked, in any scenario I described previously. In the transcript video, it was always greyed out, in the bin it never had any effect.

Still, no way to simply remove a transcript, and that's what this thread is about. And the truly shocking part was that my clips had disappeared from the timeline as I deleted the transcript manually - but only upon reloading the file! I could possibly have been editing happily only to find out much later the project was inadvertedly destroyed

@Corniger,

The "ignore transcript" was recommended in the post above where there were multiple transcripts and one was creating problems. You appear to have only one, so when you ignore it, it finds no dialogue.

> an automatic translation was generated. Would be nice to be asked for transcript language before simply doing it and making it impossible to undo or delete!

I assume you want a transcription, but it was done in the wrong language. In the future, be aware that, when using the AUTOMATIC transcription, you must set a new default language in preferences BEFORE the event that triggers the transription. When you select a clip or clips in the Project Panel and right-click to transcribe, it allows you to change the language.

Go back to the sequence, and uncheck "ignore transcription."

In the project panel, right-click Re-transcribe. If that is not an option, post a screenshot. Set the correct language.

Does that work?

Stan

All right, so I clicked on "Ignore transcript" and what now?

All I get in the transcript window is "No dialogue found".
I can't even undo that transcription. How do I get rid of this? I have to deliver this tomorrow and an automatic translation was generated. There's no "re-transcribe", before ignoring transcript this was present, but greyed out. Wouild be nice to be asked for transcript language before simply doing it and making it impossible to undo or delete!

Edit: yes, I also tried "re-transcribe" from the clip bin. Nothing happened. Then I went in and manually deleted the entire transcript text. "No dialogue found".
I will now render the video and try again in the rendered version. 

Edit 2: now I restarted Premiere, loaded the project and 80% of the clips are MISSING in the timeline! What the? Glad I could still pull a version from my cloud! 

Did anybody ever test this feature on usability? Sure doesn't seem like it.

@Leslie Kenehan ah, I understand how that could confuse things. Until there is a proper Delete Transcript option, you can go inside the group and right click on the camera audio and choose "Ignore Transcript". This means that for that specific sequence, the transcript for that audio is not used in the sequence's transcript.

I also could really use this option.  I transcribed footage on the camera audio by mistake when there was ISO audio.  Now in the group the transcipt is very sloppy, not able to identify who is talking.  Clearing the transcript from the camera audio would fix this.