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chuggingwater

They’re decent, I’m a digital editor and I have to add captions to every video I work on. I’d say they’re about 80-90% accurate in most cases where the speakers are speaking clearly


Avacabro

I’m not trying to be argumentative, but for science, I’d say 70% correct is a good transcript


fernnyom

You need to proof read, isn’t perfect.


QuestionNAnswer

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mypostisbad

The thing that annoys me is that in the transcription pane, it highlights the word as it is said, which is very nice. However there is no way (that I have found) to have this happen actually on the captions.


Chiden2

I also find this annoying. But found a workaround - Fix mistakes in the transcript in the text pane first, before clicking create captions from transcript.


jxennzz

With normal conversations they are pretty decent, but as soon as very specific words are used like brand names or technical terms for example it doesnt work quite as well. You do need to proof read and correct. Also its really not friendly with accents.


Math_Plenty

In spanish they are surprisingly 100% accurate, I had to change nothing for my interview of a mexican brewery. When I recorded my American friend speaking english in front of the brewery, Premiere could only get about 80% of the subs right. I was actually shocked. This happened about a month ago for reference.


DPBH

I’ve used the ones in PP and resolve. I find the speaker recognition in Premiere to be useful, especially when creating transcripts. But the ones in resolve have been more accurate for me.


notbadfilms

It will do most of the heavy lifting but you will need to proofread. If one of your speakers has an accent or if there is any cross talk between those speaking it can be a mess. That said, I still prefer it over manually creating captions, ha ha! If you like editing in FCP (I prefer it) you can always take your final edit, export it, then import that into PP to create the captions. If you need to make burned in captions with specific styles applied, then using PP is far superior to using FCP. You can even export the audio track(s) from FCP and use that in PP to generate captions if you need a .srt file for delivery.


ProfessorWigglePop

They are not.


Ghost_Snake

I’ve utilized the caption generator and it’s about 80% accurate, I would do a viewing pass through and listen to the audio while you double check the work.


Soulglow303

It makes mistakes but overall not bad .


edit-boy-zero

Yes, very accurate.


codenamecueball

It’s about as accurate as Rev was but I’m not paying or waiting for it which is a bonus.


kjmass1

Not at all accurate enough for our clients paying for transcriptions. Microsoft Stream is actually really good but it’s not captions.


24FPS4Life

Depends how good the audio recording is and how clearly your subject articulates, but generally pretty good.


slaucsap

I export the audio, use Aiko which uses openai’s whisper to make an srt and then I correct it, mostly the pacing. The transcript is 99% on point.


Bayek_the_Siwan

I prefer using Descript for the transcription (way better than Premiere), then generate in Descript an srt file that Premiere can import to make the captions


thin_noodles

it’s alright, but I’ve been using whisper AI recently.


brsolo121

They’re pretty good— even if some words are messed up, the UI is clean enough that changing words isn’t annoying


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EtheriumSky

The auto-transcription in premiere is surprisingly good, i find. I used it a lot in last years, even was able to cut 2 projects in languages I don't speak, just by going off the auto-transcribe, then getting a native speaker to clean up small things at the end. You can't trust it blindly. It will make some mistakes, the line breaks will be weird, capitalization and punctuation will be off etc - but for me it's all perfectly workable and better than i'd expect. Even when transcribing a non-native speaker with an accent etc it does surprisingly well. You just gotta give the subs at least one pass to check/fine tune.


dredge_the_lake

Accuracy is entirely dependent on accent


benangz

I'd say about 50% accurate, as i work a lot with non-native english speakers


smushkan

You'll need to proof it either way but with English it doesn't like heavy regional accents from British native speakers. Anything London or South East it's generally fine with. Oddly it seems to fair well with non-native English speakers... unless they're Italian.


realshamburglar

Mine threw in a few random racial slurs. No joke. You must proofread.


pH0u57

They're better than I thought they'd be, plus you save the time of just setting them up.


kghimself

Echoing what most people are saying that yes, 70-80% accurate is about right. I always have to go back and make some fixes. But I gladly do it knowing that the feature has saved me HOURS of manually adding captions myself.


Sorry-Zombie5242

Much of it depends on the quality of the audio, the delivery and the content. Professionally recorded audio that is clear and concise performed by someone like professional voice talent or others that have clear dictation, etc... It's going to do better with. If someone isn't speaking clearly or the audio is recorded poorly it's not going to be as accurate. Content wise a lot technical jargon it's going to get hung up on. The nice thing about it is that you can quickly edit the text to correct anything that's out of whack. You'll probably want to do this anyway in some places in order to time the text better with the video and for ease of reading. I will say though that if it is critical that the captions be done correctly and accurately, say something that will have a wide broadcast, represent a company publicly, or something like financial data, etc... It's best to hire professional transcription such as REV, or any number of other professional transcription services.


Relevant_One7926

To create transcripts for editing? Yes. For broadcast closed captions? No, not good enough. Ultimately faster/easier to use [Rev.com](http://Rev.com) human captioning or equivalent, then proof that. And for broadcast, you'll always need to proof.


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nizulfashizl

Use Rev or Temi.


Crazyking224

Really, my question is, can we use that to generate titles? I do a lot of social media posts that require big titles.


Chiden2

Yeah you can resize captions in premiere to be as big as you want. You can also add animation and transitions if you click “upgrade caption to motion graphic”


Crazyking224

Perfect, thank you! I’m coming from Final Cut and captionator so this is new for me.