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SRT to Plain Text Transcript

Strip cue numbers, timestamps, and caption formatting to produce a clean transcript. Paragraph mode merges cues less than two seconds apart for blog repurposing; line mode keeps every cue on its own line for review.

Output mode

Consecutive cues less than 2 seconds apart are merged into one paragraph; music/sound cues become their own paragraph.

Plain text transcript

// Paste an SRT file above to extract its transcript.

How to use this tool

  1. 01

    Upload or paste your SRT

    The captions you want as plain text — SRT or VTT, file or pasted.

  2. 02

    Choose paragraph or line mode

    Paragraph for blog and show-notes repurposing; line for closer-to-original review.

  3. 03

    Copy or download

    Use the .txt output in your CMS, podcast tool, or anywhere prose is needed.

Why this matters

Repurposing a finished video as written content multiplies its reach: one upload becomes a blog post, an indexable transcript page, a newsletter, and a stack of social quotes. The caption file already contains every word — what's missing is removing the timecodes and reflowing it into readable prose, which is pure busywork by hand on a long file.

This tool does that in one step and gives you a choice: paragraph mode merges cues less than two seconds apart (and isolates music cues) for clean editorial copy, while line mode preserves the original cue structure for review. It runs entirely in your browser. Publishing the result as an on-page transcript pairs well with the VideoObject Schema Generator for search visibility.

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FAQ

Whenever you want to get more out of a video you already made: turning the spoken content into a blog post, podcast show notes, an email newsletter, or quotable social excerpts. The caption file is a near-complete first draft — stripping the cue numbers and timestamps gives you clean prose to edit instead of transcribing from scratch.

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