Subtitle to Text Converter
Strip the timings and keep the transcript.
Subtitles
Transcript
About the Subtitle to Text converter
A subtitle file already contains everything that was said — it is just wrapped in timing data. This converter unwraps it into a readable transcript you can search, quote, summarise or paste into a document.
It is the fastest route to a transcript when captions already exist, and it needs no speech recognition at all.
Cleaning up auto-generated captions
Automatic captions from video platforms are written to scroll on screen, which means each line is repeated across consecutive cues with one new word added. Pasted raw, a five-minute video produces pages of near-identical lines.
Removing repeated cues collapses that back to the text as spoken. It is on by default, because auto-generated captions are the most common input here.
Timestamps
Keeping a timestamp per line gives you a navigable transcript — useful for interview notes or for citing a moment in a recording. Leave it off for prose you intend to read or edit.
What is stripped
Cue numbers, timing lines, WebVTT positioning settings, HTML-style tags such as `<i>` and `<c.colour>`, and ASS override blocks in curly braces. What remains is the spoken text.
Frequently asked questions
Will speaker labels be kept?
Yes, if they are part of the cue text — a line beginning "NARRATOR:" comes through unchanged. WebVTT voice tags such as <v Bob> are removed along with other markup.
Can I get a transcript from a video with no subtitles?
Not with this tool — it needs an existing caption file. Generating one from audio requires speech recognition, which is a different feature.
Is my subtitle file uploaded?
No. Parsing and rewriting happen in your browser, so the file never leaves your device. That matters for unreleased or confidential material, which subtitles often are.