Convert subtitles to plain text
Strip timings and numbering from a .srt or .vtt and keep the clean transcript.
A subtitle file is really a transcript cut into pieces. The trouble is that it arrives broken up every two or three seconds, with a block number and a pair of timestamps in front of every sentence: useless if what you want is to read it, quote it or feed it to another tool.
This utility keeps only the text. You can leave each cue on its own line, handy when you want the original segmentation, or join everything into paragraphs, which is what you want to read a lecture or a meeting end to end.
It also strips formatting tags and removes the consecutive repetitions that auto-generated subtitles leave behind, the ones where every block repeats the tail of the previous one.
How to use it
- 01 Load your .srt or .vtt file, or paste the contents.
- 02 Choose one line per cue, or the text joined into paragraphs.
- 03 Copy the result or download it as .txt.
Frequently asked questions
Does it take VTT files too?
Yes. It detects the format on its own, so you can load either a .srt or a .vtt.
Why is the text repeated?
Auto-generated subtitles on some platforms use overlapping blocks: each one repeats the tail of the previous cue to create a scrolling effect. The tool detects and drops those consecutive repeats.
Can I recover who said what?
Only if the file carries it, usually as a dash or a name at the start of the line. SRT stores no speaker information of its own.
Can I use it to transcribe a video?
Only if the video already has subtitles. If it does not, you need to generate them first: that is what Eco does, transcribing the audio as it plays.
Related tools
This is what Eco does live.
These utilities work on files you already have. Eco transcribes and translates while the audio is still playing: meetings, classes, videos in another language.
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