VTT to Word — a Teams or Zoom transcript as a document
Turn a .vtt transcript from Teams, Zoom or YouTube into a Word document in paragraphs, with each speaker’s name in bold — not a wall of timestamps.
About this conversion
Teams and Zoom save a meeting transcript as .vtt: hundreds of fragments of a sentence each, with a speaker tag and two timestamps. Opened in Word it is unreadable. Here the fragments are joined back into paragraphs — a new one each time someone else starts speaking or after a pause — with the speaker’s name in bold at the start, and saved as a .docx that opens in Word, Google Docs and Pages. If you need the times, “Word — table with times” in Save as gives one row per fragment.
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, TXT, 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
- The speaker names are missing.
- They are only there if the meeting recorded them. YouTube captions have none; the paragraphs then break on pauses and on the “>>” marks that some captions use for a new speaker.
- Can I get it as plain text instead?
- Yes — “Transcript in paragraphs” in Save as gives the same paragraphs as a .txt file.