Classroom in a book

Transcribing speech to text
The first step in transcribing audio to text is to change your workspace to the Meta-
logging workspace and make the metadata associated with your files visible in the 
Adobe Premiere Pro interface.
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Open Lesson 14-1.prproj.
2
Click Window > Workspace > Metalogging to change the workspace layout 
to Metalogging.
This workspace is designed to make it easy for you to see the metadata 
associated your audio and video files.
3
Double-click the Hero-analysis.mpeg clip in the Project panel to load it into the 
Source Monitor.
4
Click the Play button in the Source Monitor to play the clip.
The words spoken by the actors are what you want to convert to a text 
transcript.
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 Note:
XMP
metadata is text 
information about a 
source file that is stored 
with the source file. 
The text transcription 
you are about to do 
will store the words 
transcribed from the 
audio file as metadata. 
Transcriptions are 
special in that the 
metadata is associated 
with time as well, so the 
transcribed text is in 
sync with the audio file.

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On the right side of the workspace is the Metadata panel with three fields: Clip, 
File, and Speech Analysis. Click the Speech Analysis triangle to open that field, 
and then click the Analyze button (highlighted here) to start the transcription 
process. Note that if you’re working in a restricted screen space, you may have 
to expand the Metadata window to see the Analyze button.
The Analyze Content dialog appears.
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In the Analyze Content dialog, choose the options shown in this figure, and 
click OK.
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 Note:
Select the 
Identify Speakers 
option if you want the 
transcription process to 
attempt to tag the text 
with different speaker 
tags. This function works 
best if each speaker has 
a unique voice.

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LESSON 14
Analyzing Content
This will launch Adobe Media Encoder, which is a stand-alone application 
that handles some batch-processing tasks for Adobe Premiere Pro, including 
exporting media (which we will cover in detail in Chapter 20) and speech 
transcription. Since it is a stand-alone application, it can process these tasks 
while you continue to work on other things in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 or 
other applications.
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You will see the file you want to transcribe loaded into Adobe Media Encoder, 
and the program should start transcribing immediately. If not, click the Start 
Queue button that appears instead of the highlighted Stop Queue button.
Adobe Media Encoder processes and transcribes the file.
8
Switch back to Adobe Premiere Pro, and note that there is a progress indicator 
at the bottom of the Metadata panel.
When the encoding and transcription process is complete, the text transcription 
will appear in the window.
Your transcription should look similar to what is shown here. The time it takes 
to complete the transcription depends on the length of the source file and the 
speed of your system.
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Click the Play button to play the clip. Notice that the words in the transcription 
are highlighted as they are spoken.

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