Convert · SRT → TXT
SRT to TXT converter
Strip a subtitle track of its scaffolding and the words remain — that is all converting SRT to TXT does: index numbers and timecodes come out, the spoken lines stay in their order, and what you copy is prose a document will accept. The page covers the removal itself, the tidying machine captions need, where plain words earn their keep, and the limits.
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Convert an SRT file to TXT in one pass
Drag the subtitle file onto the converter above, or paste its contents into the left pane, and the readable version builds itself on the right. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is metered, and no sign-in stands in the way. Copy what you get, or download it as a .txt: a two-hour lecture takes the same instant as a two-minute clip.
Curious what you are feeding in? The anatomy of a SubRip document shows which of its three parts survive the trip.
What is removed, what is kept
A SubRip cue is three things stacked together, and the converter keeps only the third:
- the sequence number on its own line — removed;
- the timing line,
00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,600— removed; - the dialogue underneath it — kept, in its original order.
Inline <i> and <font> markup is cleared out as well, since a plain document has no use for it. Speaker labels written into the dialogue, such as - Anna: at the head of a line, count as wording rather than structure, so they stay exactly where the captioner put them. The surviving lines are then rejoined into continuous prose, and the blank line that separated one cue from the next goes with everything else.
Tidying machine captions afterwards
Automatic captions need a minute of cleanup, and one quirk explains most of it. YouTube auto-captions scroll two lines at a time, so each cue repeats the tail of the one before, and a raw export can read as though every phrase were said twice. This converter removes cue boundaries, not duplicates, so run your eye down the first screenful before publishing anything. Sentence case and punctuation are missing from most machine captions too — any editor fixes both quickly. A cleaner starting point, when the source is a video rather than a file, is a merged YouTube transcript without a subtitle file, which joins the overlapping cues for you.
What the plain words are for
Once the timings are gone the words behave like any other document. They are searchable in a note-taking app, quotable in an article, pasteable into an email, countable by a word counter and translatable by whatever service you already use. Course notes, podcast show notes, meeting minutes and research quotations all begin here. An hour of speech lands at roughly 8,000 to 9,000 words once the timings are gone, which reads as a twenty-page document rather than a thousand-odd fragments. Plain text is also what a summarising assistant reads best, because exact wording needs no decoding — a stripped transcript costs a fraction of the tokens a media file would. Holding WebVTT instead of SubRip? The WebVTT twin of this converter does the identical job.
The limits, stated plainly
This is a stripper, not a rewriter. It will not translate what you paste in, it will not punctuate or paragraph machine captions for you, and it accepts subtitle text rather than video or audio. Numerals, names and technical terms come through exactly as the captioner typed them, right or wrong. Once the timecodes are gone they are gone, and the page offers no undo, so keep the original if the timings might matter later. Going the other way and building cues out of a script instead? Rebuild subtitle cues from a plain script is the tool next door.
Frequently asked questions
How do I convert SRT to TXT?
Drag the .srt onto the converter above or paste its text. Numbering and timecodes are stripped, clean lines appear on the right, and you can copy them or download a .txt. It is free and nothing is uploaded.
Does it keep the timestamps?
No — removing them is the point. If you need a timed document instead, keep the SubRip original or switch it to WebVTT; both preserve every cue boundary exactly.
How do I get subtitles into a Word document?
Convert the track here, press copy, and paste into Word, Google Docs or Notion. What lands is ordinary text, so styles, headings and search all behave normally.
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. Reading and stripping happen inside this page, so a legal deposition or an unaired interview stays on your own machine.