SRT to TXT
An SRT file holds every word of a film, lecture or interview, but it is buried between cue numbers and timecodes. Convert it to TXT and you get readable text you can quote, translate, search or paste into a document.
Subtitle Converter
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Max 95 MB per file· Up to 20 files· Deleted after 30 minutes
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Moves every subtitle by this many seconds. Use a positive number if subtitles appear too early, negative if too late (e.g. -1.5).
Set this and the target rate when subtitles drift further out of sync over the film, a sign they were timed for a different video release.
Frame rate of the video you will play the subtitles with. A 23.976 → 25 conversion fixes most PAL/NTSC drift.
Only used for plain TXT input, which has no times: each line is shown for this long, one after another. Adjust times afterwards in a subtitle editor if needed.
Auto-detect handles most files. Pick the encoding manually if accented, Cyrillic or Arabic letters come out as question marks. The output is always UTF-8.
Font used by the default ASS style. The viewer's computer must have it installed; Arial is the safest choice.
Size relative to a 1080-pixel-tall video. 48 is a typical size for films.
How to use this tool
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Add the .srt files
Drop one subtitle file or a whole season, up to 20 files of 95 MB each. Encoding is detected automatically, including older Windows-1252 and Cyrillic files.
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Pick the transcript style
Lines are already joined into paragraphs and tags such as <i> are removed. Turn on Include timestamps to mark where each line starts, or turn off Join lines into paragraphs to keep one caption per line.
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Convert and download
Press Convert to Plain text (TXT) and save the .txt files. They are UTF-8, so accents and non-Latin scripts open correctly in any editor. Uploads are deleted after 30 minutes.
How do I convert SRT to text?
Upload the .srt file and press the convert button with TXT selected. Cue numbers and timecodes are stripped, formatting tags are removed and broken lines are joined into paragraphs, giving you a plain transcript.
What is in an SRT file besides the words
SRT is named after SubRip, a free Windows tool from around 2000 that read subtitles off DVDs with character recognition and saved them as text. Its format is deliberately minimal. Each cue is a counter, a timing line such as 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,050 with a comma before the milliseconds, one or two lines of text, and a blank line before the next cue.
That layout is perfect for a video player and awkward for a reader. A feature-length film is often split into more than a thousand cues, so the words you care about make up less than half the lines. Copying them out by hand is slow, and find-and-replace tricks tend to delete lines that happen to contain numbers. A converter that understands the structure removes exactly the counter, the timing line and the separator and leaves the text alone.
The same tool works for other caption sources. Web captions saved as WebVTT go through VTT to TXT, and the subtitle converter handles ASS, SBV and TTML files as well.
Three ways the SRT to text output can look
The default. Caption lines are joined into flowing sentences without times or numbers, which reads like a script or an article.
- Best for quotes, summaries and translation review
- Join lines into paragraphs on, Include timestamps off
Each caption starts with its start time, for example [00:02:14] I never said that. so you can jump back to the moment in the video.
- Best for interview logs and research notes
- Turn on Include timestamps
One caption line per text line, exactly as it appeared on screen, without times. Useful when you want to count or compare subtitle lines.
- Best for checking line length and reading speed
- Turn off Join lines into paragraphs
Lines per one-line cue in SRT
4
Counter, timing line, text, blank line
Lines in the TXT
1
Only the spoken words
SRT
SubRip subtitles
SRT is the subtitle format of SubRip, a free Windows program that extracted subtitles from video around 2000. Each entry is a plain-text block with a number, a start and end time, and the caption text. It is the most widely supported subtitle format, accepted by VLC, YouTube, Facebook, video editors and smart TVs. SRT has only basic formatting and no positioning or styling standard.
- Compression
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- Transparency
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- Animation
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- Introduced
- SubRip
TXT
Plain text
A TXT file contains only plain characters with no formatting, fonts, images or layout. Modern text files are usually encoded in UTF-8, which covers every language, though older files may use other encodings and show garbled characters. Plain text is tiny, never becomes obsolete and opens on every device, from phones to servers. It cannot hold bold text, tables or pictures, so structure must be expressed with spacing or simple markup.
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- Transparency
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- Animation
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- Introduced
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SRT wraps every line in numbers and timecodes that get in the way of reading; plain text keeps only the dialogue for quoting, translation review or study notes.
Who converts subtitles to a transcript
Students and language learners
Turn lecture or film subtitles into study notes, look up words in context and print the dialogue next to a translation.
Translators and editors
Read the whole script in one pass to check terminology and tone before touching timings in a subtitle editor.
Writers and researchers
Quote an interview accurately, search it for names, or keep a text record of a talk that is easier to archive than video.
SRT to TXT questions
How do I remove timestamps from an SRT file?
Convert it to TXT on this page with Include timestamps off, which is the default. The cue numbers, the arrow lines with start and end times, and the blank separator lines are all dropped, and only the spoken text remains.
Can I keep speaker names in the transcript?
Yes. Names written into the subtitle text, such as ANNA: or a leading dash for a second speaker, are part of the words and stay in the TXT. SRT has no separate speaker field, so a name that never appeared on screen cannot be recovered.
Why are some sentences split in odd places?
Subtitles break text to fit about two short lines on screen, not at sentence ends. Join lines into paragraphs merges those fragments; if you turned it off, every caption line stays on its own line.
Can I open the TXT in Word or Google Docs?
Any editor opens it. If you need a formatted .docx with headings and page numbers, run the text through TXT to DOCX afterwards.
How do I turn edited text back into subtitles?
Once the TXT has no times it cannot be synced exactly again. TXT to SRT rebuilds cues with an even duration per line, which is a starting point you then adjust in a subtitle editor.
Does it work for subtitles in Arabic, Russian or Korean?
Yes. The output is always UTF-8. If letters come out garbled, the source was saved in a legacy code page; pick it under Input encoding, for example Windows-1256 for Arabic or Windows-1251 for Cyrillic.
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