Soundbooth markers into AE

I am trying to animate some text to spoken words that I have recorded. I have the audio file in Soundbooth and have made the flash cue points marked when each word is said with the (*) key, I would like to get those markers into AE so that I can animate text to each word. I consider myself to still be a newbie at AE, I have done a few 3D text animations among other things, and think that I can handle the project if only I could get the markers to come in with the file. Is there something I am not doing? Please help me out.
Donny

Unfortunately the exchange of markers does not work from Audition to Premiere Pro.
Is there any way of achieving this? I need it urgently.
I tested your workflow:
Save an Audition Multitrack session that has markers as a .wav mixdown (with "include markers and other metadata" activated).
import this .wav into AE => markers show on layer (OK)
import this .wav into Premiere Pro => no markers, neither in the source monitor nor in the sequence window
Is this really not supported? Is there any workaround to get the markers into Premiere?
It is hard to believe that it does work for AE but is not implemented for Premiere.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Andreas

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