VTT to TXT — the text of a transcript or captions
Get the words out of a .vtt file from YouTube, Teams, Zoom or an online course as plain text — without timestamps, tags or repeated lines.
About this conversion
A .vtt holds the text of a video along with times, speaker tags and styling. This leaves only the words, one fragment per line, with the speaker’s name in front when the file has one. YouTube automatic captions, which repeat each phrase as they roll, come out with every phrase once. For running text in paragraphs — the usual want for a meeting or a lecture — pick “Transcript in paragraphs” in Save as; for a document with the speakers in bold, pick the Word transcript.
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 SRT, 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
- Can I keep the times?
- “Text with times” in Save as puts the start time in front of every line.
- Is my transcript uploaded anywhere?
- No. It is read by this page in your browser; there is no server for it to go to.