Remove sound descriptions and speaker names from subtitles
Pick what to take out — sounds in brackets, music, speaker names, credits — and the lines left empty are removed entirely.
What comes out
Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) describe what cannot be heard: [DOOR SLAMS], (sighs), ♪ lyrics ♪, and name the speaker when the face is off screen — JOHN: Hello. For anyone who hears the film they crowd the screen. Each kind is a separate tick box, so you can keep the lyrics and drop the rest.
Lines that were only a sound disappear, and the gaps they leave are not filled. A dialogue line that loses its partner — “- [SCREAMS] / - Run!” — loses its dash too, and italics cut in half are closed again.
Also on the list
“Subtitles by…” credits and site ads at the very start and end of the file, all formatting if you want plain text, and ALL-CAPS lines turned to normal case. After cleaning, the checker shows what is left too long or too fast to read.
Questions
- Will it remove things that are not sounds?
- Only text in brackets, between music notes, and names in capitals followed by a colon. Look through the result — every line is listed — and press Undo if something you wanted went with it.
- Can I see what was removed?
- The note above the table says how many lines were cleaned and how many disappeared. Undo and the search box let you compare before and after.