SRT to Text Converter
Extract only the dialogue from subtitle files as plain text, without timecodes or numbers.
Turn subtitles into a transcript
If you want to read a video's or lecture's text, turn it into a blog post, send it for translation or summarise it with AI tools, sequence numbers and timecodes get in the way. The SRT to Text converter removes them and keeps only what is said.
Output options
Keep each subtitle on its own line or let the text flow as continuous paragraphs. Styling tags are removed automatically.
Ideas
- Turn YouTube videos into blog posts or articles
- Create lecture notes from recorded classes
- Learn a language from film dialogue
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How to use SRT to Text Converter
- Upload your SRT, VTT or ASS file.
- Choose line-by-line or paragraph output.
- Preview the cleaned text.
- Copy the text or download it as TXT.
Why use this tool?
Cleaning subtitle text by hand can take hours; this tool produces a readable transcript in seconds.
FAQ
Can lines be joined into paragraphs?
Yes. Choose whether each subtitle stays on its own line or the text flows as continuous paragraphs.
I don't have a subtitle file for my video. What can I do?
Create subtitles first with the AI Video Subtitle Generator, then convert them to text.
Are speaker names kept?
If they're written in the subtitle text, yes; only timecodes, numbers and tags are removed.
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