SRT to TXT

A subtitle file already holds the full transcript of a film, lecture or interview, buried between counters, timecodes and tags. Converting it to text removes the numbers, the "00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:05,000" lines, italic and colour tags, position codes such as {\an8} and YouTube's word-by-word timings. Lines that were split in two to fit the screen are joined again, while dialogue lines that start with a dash stay apart, so you can still tell who speaks.

Choose one subtitle per line to keep the rhythm of the original, or paragraphs to read it like an article: lines are joined and a new paragraph starts where the speech pauses after a sentence. With timestamps, each line starts with its time, like [00:12:05], or its time range, which helps to quote a moment or find it again in the video. Repeated lines, common in auto-captions, appear only once, and the text is saved as UTF-8 whatever the encoding of the subtitles.