Speech to Text in Arabic

True. I totally agree with you. But this issue and post has been around a long time, and while other free NLEs have the Arabic transcript, Adobe can't figure it out yet? Or, they are too lazy to do any meaningful addition or development. They immerse themselves with futile UI facelift i.e., the color highlight of activated tools (on the timeline and in other worksapces: AUDIO, has gone from easily seen visually - blue, to a white activated and grey not activated, which is hard to distinguish. 

Why they screw things up I don't know. Monay wasted on silly things instead of proper development. DaVinci latest version has 100 AI assisted tools, how many Premiere has? Less than 10. 

Unfortunately, Premiere Pro still suffers from serious bugs related to right-to-left (RTL) text support. I reported these issues to Adobe years ago, including a detailed demo video highlighting the problems. The team acknowledged them at the time, but unfortunately, nothing has been fixed since.

Talking about percentages, supporting Right-to-Left languages doesn't mean you will support Arabic Language only, rather the support will include all Languages uses scripts similar to Arabic alphabets such as Farsi / Urdu / Pashto / Kurdish / Malay / Uyghor, hence the user numbers will certainly grow massively.

Surely, text-to-speech is something else and had nothing to do with above percentage comparison. Having said that, if third party plugins and online services can do the job, why can't Adobe do it, they have an army of developers, it is better than losing business to DaVinci. Similarly Adobe Acrobat as an expensive application and is considered as leader in the market lacks so much Arabic support whereas much cheaper "competitor" applications supports Arabic better!

@Carlos5C66 I too work and stay in the UAE.

Adobe had held surveys over the years in our region (Middle East), they come here in person or online. We had a fruitful meeting with a group of Adobe relevant technical and business staff last Wednesday in order to convey the message and see the development of new Right-to-Left and Arabic / Farsi / Urdu languages features. 

We discussed the feature "Text to Speach" which is being discussed in this thread. I'm not defending Adobe here as I'm not a staff, but I can say that Adobe are working on several RTL features but mainly on the Adobe Text Engine more than anything.

Beside Adobe's reagional office in Riyadh – Saudi Arabia, Adobe staff from San Jose are visiting Dubai early next November, and they would need to meet users, kindly reach out to me to connect you directly with the visiting team in order to present your case as well as other users in the region.

Dear R Neil Haugen,

Thank you for replying. I work in UAE, for a university, so many students are frustrated too, and can't find a sensible reason behind all the exclusion of 350M speakers of Arabic compared to 4.5M of a Scandinavian country.

Plus, all other competitive NLEs have it, even free online NLE like CapCut, InVideo, etc.

However, great reply from you.

Well, as I keep saying - especially now that Adobe have increased their pricing,  soon most Premiere Pro users (maybe 2 years max.) will shift to DaVinci.

Good day sir.

Remember, I'm another user, and like all users of any of these complex apps, have my own frustrations with it at times. I have no more ability to force change than anyone.

And of course, no clue about the relative number of Norwegian/Icelandic/Danish users (nearly identical languages mostly)  compared to Arabic than any other users.

I do know Adobe has offices and employees working about everywhere on the planet ... one of the intersting things about working with staffers. And at Adobe's big MAX event, there's always a pretty decent contingent of users attending from across the Arabic language area ... Syria through Jordan and Egypt and on. So there are definitely users and staffers in Arabic countries.

Again, I understand the frustration, and totally sympathize. Arabic is far from the only language not currently supported ... and yea, that outright sucks. It's also one of the most beautiful languages to listen to ... I've Arabic friends & acquaintances. I love to hear them talk, even though there's some of the sounds I'd never be able to learn at this point.

But it's so beautiful to listen to. 

Emotional language? Where and how? Well tell me something: since you are percentage-driven, honestly, how many users are Norwegian compared to those who are Arabic users? And yet, there is a Norwegian language transcription! How is that working for you in terms of percentage?

I understand the frustration, certainly. There's a lot of users that work with Arabic, and other middle-east area languages.

I do find the emotional language odd ... it isn't that 'they' care or don't care. I would guess that like so many decisions, it's simply looking at the percentage of the total user base versus the cost in developer time, then placed in the list of the bajillion or so needed and/or requested changes/additions.

Many of my long-requested color things are acknowledged by the devs to be definitely a very useful thing ... but ... for a small enough sub-set of users, I would not hold my breath ... sigh.

It doesn't look like Adobe cares about adding Arabic transcription anytime soon, at least not to me...

I ended up using SaharaSub after seeing a recommendation on this thread, it's a plugin and it is paid, but I find it worthy enough to keep using it.

no solution yet, bring it up again