SRT to text, timestamps stripped out

Convert SRT to TXT, or VTT to TXT

A subtitle file is a transcript wrapped in timing data. If what you actually wanted was the words - to quote them, to edit them, to feed them to something else - the numbers and timestamps are in the way, and removing them by hand on a 600-cue file is nobody’s idea of an afternoon.

This tool reads SRT or VTT and gives you the text alone, saved as a .txt file. It offers two shapes because they are genuinely different jobs: one line per cue, which preserves the subtitle structure for editing, or flowing paragraphs, which is what you want if you were after a readable transcript.

One line per cue, or paragraphs?

Keep one line per cue when you are still working with the subtitles - checking wording, spotting a mistranscription, counting lines. The output maps one-to-one onto the file you put in, so you can find your place.

Choose paragraphs when you want something that reads like prose. Cues are joined into continuous text, and a new paragraph starts wherever there was a silence of two seconds or more. That threshold is a heuristic, not an insight: in practice a two-second gap usually means the speaker finished a thought or someone else started talking, which is close enough to a paragraph break to be useful. It will not match where you would have broken the text yourself.

A cue that spans two display lines is joined with a space in both modes, because the line break there was a subtitle layout decision rather than part of the sentence.