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Using Speech-to-Text for Finished Projects in Premiere Pro
Larry Jordan, Larry Jordan (larryjordan.com), 2024
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- A working editor's account, posted May 18, 2024, of transcribing a finished interview in Premiere Pro with Adobe's Speech-to-Text, then correcting the transcript and creating captions. It covers the Automatically Transcribe Clips setting, speaker labels and SRT export.
- How much weight it carries
- A first-hand account by an experienced editor, with a date. It describes one project and one Premiere Pro version. It is not an Adobe document and not a controlled test, so use it for steps and limits, not for accuracy figures.
Facts taken from this source
- In Premiere Pro, the Automatically Transcribe Clips option is in the Transcription settings, and when it is on, transcription starts in the background as soon as you import a clip.
“Inside Premiere Pro go to: Premiere Pro > Settings > Transcription and enable Automatically Transcribe Clips” (Section Transcription, first paragraph)
- The editor Larry Jordan wrote that Premiere Pro does not reliably identify speakers, so he planned to review the transcript by hand.
“Premiere does not reliably identify speakers. So, knowing I was going to manually review the transcript later,” (Section Transcription, note after the Re-transcribe clip step)
- In a 2024 review, the editor Larry Jordan described Adobe's Speech-to-Text engine as powerful but not very accurate, and estimated that about 80 percent of its output on three of his videos was text he did not have to transcribe himself.
“The Adobe Speech-to-Text engine is powerful, but not very accurate. Based on my limited work with three videos, I would guess about 80%.” (Section Summary)
- In a 2024 walkthrough, Larry Jordan made captions in Premiere Pro from his corrected transcript and exported them as a separate SRT file for YouTube.
“I could now export the video with burned-in text, or as a separate .SRT sidecar file for uploading to YouTube.” (Section Update the transcript, create captions)
Pages that rest on this source
- How do you transcribe audio in Premiere Pro?Question
- Why is auto transcription not working in CapCut, Canva or Premiere Pro?Question
- Timestamps and Speaker Labels in TranscriptsGuide
- How do you add automatic captions to YouTube Shorts?Question
- What is an SRT file, and how is it different from VTT?Question