SRT to TXT — just the words of a subtitle file
Strip the numbers, times and tags out of an .srt file and keep only the dialogue as plain text — line by line, with times, or as paragraphs.
About this conversion
For a quote, a translation, a summary or a language exercise, what you want from a subtitle file is the words. This takes out the numbering, the times, the italics tags and positioning codes and leaves one line of dialogue after another. Two other versions are in the Save as menu: “Text with times”, which keeps the start time in front of every line so you can find it in the video, and “Transcript in paragraphs”, which joins the lines into running text and starts a new paragraph when the speaker changes or after a pause.
Just want to look inside it?
The same tool without converting anything: open the file and read it.
Fix it before you save it
The file stays open after it is read, so the format is picked at the end: the same subtitles can leave here as VTT, ASS, SBV, SUB (MicroDVD), TTML / DFXP, SAMI (.smi), LRC, Word, Excel or PDF. Before that you can move every line earlier or later, stretch the timing to a different release of the film, remove [DOOR SLAMS] and speaker names, put a second language under the first, and see which lines break the rules studios follow — too long, too fast, overlapping.
Questions
- Lines are split in the middle of sentences.
- That is how subtitles are timed. “Transcript in paragraphs” joins them back into sentences.
- Can I remove the [MUSIC] and speaker names too?
- Yes — “Remove hearing-impaired text” above the table takes them out before you save.