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Free SRT to TXT converter: subtitles to plain text
Convert an SRT or VTT subtitle file to plain text: the words only, without the cue numbers and timings.
Your subtitles
Drag a file here, paste it, or choose one.
.srt, .vtt. Up to 5 MB.
Your subtitles never leave your browser. The conversion runs in this page.
More options
2.5 shows every line 2.5 seconds later. -1 shows them a second earlier. Cues pushed before 0:00 are dropped.
Result
Worked example
Measured on our own SRT for a 2 minute 17 second explainer, converted to plain text.
Source SRT, 33 cues
2,876 bytes
TXT, 252 words
1,764 bytes
Numbers and timings make up more than a third of an SRT. What is left is the 252 word script, ready for show notes, a summary or a translation.
1. Add the subtitles. 2. Pick the format. 3. Download or copy.
What Interlace does
You have the transcript. Interlace makes the video.
- Paste the text into Interlace
- Pick a visual style and a voice
- Scenes, narration and subtitles are done for you
Real Interlace output, unedited. Shown silent and sped up.
Your transcript
Every moment, your body meets potential invaders:
bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites.
Questions
Asked and answered
No. The file is read as text by this page, converted with plain JavaScript and offered back as a download. There is no server step.
One line per cue keeps the subtitle breaks, which is easiest to check against the video. One paragraph reads like a transcript and suits a summary or a translation. With times puts [00:01:05] in front of each line, which is handy for show notes and chapter markers.
In the paragraph layout, yes: every cue is joined with a space, so a sentence split over two subtitles reads as one. In the line layout each cue stays on its own line, as it was on screen.
Yes. It reads SRT and WebVTT, including Zoom and Teams transcripts. Speaker tags become the name and a colon at the start of the line.
Paste it into the transcript to training script tool to clean it into a script, then into Interlace to make a narrated video from it.
Turn this into a video
Create an account and start from a document, script, or prompt.