Hey, everyone, Kelsey here, and welcome back to Gal.
Today, finally, Adobe has made the speech to text feature
available to all users in the latest update of Premiere Pro.
So if you go to the Adobe Creative Cloud app and you update to version 15.4,
you will now have a text panel there where you can use speech to text.
Now, I've done videos about speech to text before.
But that was when it was in a closed beta or it was in the public beta,
and you had to use the beta version of that.
But now it's in the full version, which is really exciting.
So if you're new to speech to text and you're like, what the heck
a speech attacks?
Well, actually, it will auto generate a transcript of your sequence
for you and add captions to your sequence so you don't have to use
any third party apps.
All the captioning is done within Premiere Pro.
So the way it works is you just open up the text panel
and you can generate captions and it uses the clouds.
You need to be connected
to the Internet to generate the captions using Adobe Sensa.
And then from there, you can edit the speakers.
You can edit if there's any errors in the transcript
and you can add captions in stylized them.
And I actually made a pack of different
captioning styles that you can get from my store.
And you can import them into your project panel.
And they will appear
as different captioning styles that you can apply to your video.
And the best part is and this is exciting because a lot of you have asked this,
what's the pricing? Right.
Are they going to charge extra in addition to the Adobe Creative Cloud plan?
Well, after all the testing, Adobe is decided
with our Adobe Creative Cloud plan.
You can use the speech to text auto captioning for free within reasonable use.
And that means that essentially for all of your weekly projects
that are just the videos that you're putting out, you can use it for free.
Now, if you have bunch of videos like an archive of hundreds of hours
of videos that you need to transcribe and caption, that's a different story.
And they would likely charge for that primarily for enterprise plans only.
So if your enterprise.
They will be really seen that data soon. That's what they told me.
But for individual plans and basic team plans, you can use this for free
for your daily workflow.
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Without further ado, let's show you how this new captioning workflow works
inside a Premiere Pro.
So once you have your final video and your timeline ready to be transcribed,
you can go to window and select the text panel.
And from here, just click transcribe sequence for audio analysis.
There are a few options.
First, you can choose to only transcribe the clips that are marked as dialog.
And to mark clips as dialog.
All you need to do is select the audio clip in your timeline
and go to Essential Sound panel.
And here you can label this clip as dialog.
So Premiere Pro knows it's a dialog clip, or you can simply transcribe
the audio on the track as the full mics or just audio track one.
Right now, Adobe has 13 different languages to choose from
from this dropdown that you can see.
And if you don't see your language, Adobe is continually working to add more.
So then you can choose to transcribe only the in and out points
if you've added specific and and out points in your timeline.
And if you have multiple speakers, you can opt in
for Adobe to recognize when different speakers are talking.
Now, I only have myself speaking in this video,
so I will not check this option.
And also make sure that you're
connected to the Internet, because after you click transcribe, Adobe
sends the audio files to the cloud for processing with Adobe Sensei
that automatically produces the text from the speech.
So then it will begin to auto transcribe.
Right now, this video I have is one minute in duration, and I timed it
and it took about 35 seconds to transcribe.
And once it's done on the left, you can see that it produced speakers
and all of the text if you want to edit the speaker.
You can just click here to edit it and you can change it to the speaker name.
Then from the actual transcription,
you'll notice that when you click on the different words as you click,
it'll take you to that particular moment in the timeline when I'm speaking.
So all of this text is time coded and responsive.
So if you click on it, it takes you to that exact point in the video
from the transcript, I can see just a few errors
that I need to update, and that's really easy to fix.
Just double click on the text and you can begin to edit
right here in the box until you fix all of the errors.
So you might be asking how accurate is Adobe Sensei
and transcribing the transcription for you?
Like, is it 99 percent accurate is it 98?
It really depends on the speaker.
But I can say from my experience.
Auto transcribing
through the closed beta in the public beta, there's really only a few errors
that comes up, and usually it's if I'm saying something like four K,
sometimes it'll spell out the word for instead of the number four.
But as you uploading, you do this, the machine gets more powerful
and powerful and it's pretty much up to
par with any auto transcription program that you've probably used.
You'll also notice that there's a search box here
if you type in any word, let's say you type in YouTube.
It'll take me to that moment in the video where I say YouTube.
Now, this search feature is not super useful for this short one minute video,
because I can pretty much see all the text in the panel.
But if you have a longer 30 to 60 minute interview
where you need to find where somebody says a particular phrase
or a word, you can go to the search box and type in that word.
It'll take you right to that point in the video.
And it will just make you easy to take that soundbite
and use it in your video edit so it can be used for captioning,
but also as a research and search tool to help you edit as well.
Another thing that's really cool with longer interviews, if somebody is talking,
they likely will say a longer pauses.
And so the transcript doesn't transcribe those pauses or those arms.
So if you want to
have the transcript display those pauses, you can go up to the ellipsis tool.
Click on it and have the pauses be displayed as three dots.
So that way you'll know when there's a pause and it can help you edit.
So after I've done that here, you can see I have a fully edited
video without pauses.
So I don't have any of those pauses displayed in my transcript.
You can also export the transcript from this Eclipsys menu item here,
and you can save it as a text file.
So once everything is ready in the transcript,
you can press the button, create captions.
Since the BITA, this new caption window has improved based on our feedback.
So now you'll be able to choose the caption preset from the get go.
And for social media, I'm just going to choose the subtitle default.
But you'll also see other options to choose in the dropdown menu.
You'll also be able to import a specific preset that you need and style.
You'll also be able
to create your own caption and styles from the essential graphics panel
or import any styles such as my own Captioning presets that I've created
in the style that includes the font, the color, shadows or background.
And I will show you this in just a moment,
and then you can choose how long you want each captioning line to be by character
length and the minimum duration.
You can also choose to have gaps between the captions.
I personally like no gaps, so I'm going to keep mine at zero.
So it's fully snap together.
And lastly, you can choose if you want your subtitle lines
to be in a single or double line stacked on top of each other.
I like single, so I'm going to choose that and then I'll hit Create.
So this will just take a few seconds and then you'll see the subtitle track
was made here in the timeline.
When you click on the captions line from the text panel, it will take you
to that exact caption in the timeline and or highlight it for you.
So you can have it selected and then you can edit the style
so you can go up to the essential graphics panel.
And here you can update the text, font and style.
And you can update the appearance such as the fill.
You can add a stroke, a background, or even a shadow.
And then from the track style, click create style.
And this will update the style that you made to all of the captions in the track.
So you don't have to do it to each individual captioning clip here.
You'll also see in the project panel, this is where it's saved the style.
So you can right click on this style and export it as Adobe, Premiere textile file.
And you can always drag and drop this style into your project
panel before you begin the captioning process
so that we when it's imported,
as you generate your captions , it'll appear under the track style dropdown.
So what I've done is I've actually created a pack of
10 different captioning styles that you can get from my store.
You can download it
and you can drag and drop it into the Premiere Pro product panel.
And then when you go to update your captions, all of these textiles
will appear from the dropdown in the essential graphics panel.
And if you are a patron,
if you've joined my Patreon community, you will get these ten styles for free.
And I put details just down below.
And once you apply a style, if you decide to make any changes to the style,
then if you click on this little arrow up, it'll push all of these changes
to all of the captions in the track,
which is really, really cool and saves you a lot of time.
So you can really customize the styles with ease.
So the key to making these captions great is just choosing a great, bold
font that's easily readable and non serif as well.
So it doesn't have any kind of curly corners.
One more thing that I want to show you
is that the captions here in the timeline function just like video clips.
So you can. Move them around and drag them out, just like
standard video clips at this time, though, you cannot add effects.
If you try to drag transitions, it will not work.
And this is something I'd like to see in the next update.
You can also turn off the visibility of the captions and right click
here on the subtitles to add another track or delete the track.
For example, you may want to add
another track for a different language translation on top.
So to export the captioning file, you can go to the ellipsis from the tax panel.
Intellect export to SRT file
to burn the captions in the video, you need to go to file export media.
Then go to the captions tab and select burn captions in the video
and then export and you're good to go.
So that's all for the captain workflow.
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And yeah, that's all for today's video.
I hope that the new caption workflow is useful to you.
It's definitely been a game changer for me for adding captions to YouTube.
So that way I have my file ready when I upload.
And with YouTube, it's really important to have captions because your captions
become part of the searchable content on YouTube
and it makes it more accessible to everyone.
So if this video helps you out,
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And as always, keep creating better video with Gal. Bye!