VTT to TXT converter

Convert VTT to TXT: turn a WebVTT caption file from Zoom, Teams, Vimeo or a web player into plain text you can read, quote and paste.

Choose a subtitle fileor drop it here — or paste the text below

The conversion runs in your browser. Your file is not uploaded.

What the VTT to TXT converter does

The VTT to TXT converter takes a WebVTT file and writes only the spoken text, one caption per line. The WEBVTT header, timestamps, cue settings, NOTE comments and STYLE blocks are removed. The conversion runs in your browser: the subtitle file is read on your device and is not uploaded.

VTT to text: before and after

WEBVTT

00:00:00.750 --> 00:00:02.670 align:start
However, due to the slow

00:00:02.670 --> 00:00:05.310
communication channels,

becomes

However, due to the slow
communication channels,

Where VTT files come from

Meeting recordings. Zoom and Microsoft Teams save the transcript of a recorded meeting as a .vtt file.
Web video. Vimeo and HTML5 players use WebVTT for captions, so a downloaded caption track is usually a VTT file.
Caption tools. Any subtitle generator that exports for the web writes VTT.

What to do with the VTT transcript

Paste the text into meeting notes, a blog post or a video description, search it for a quote, or hand it to a summarising tool. To keep the timing in another format instead, use VTT to SRT.

Cleaning up a VTT meeting transcript

Convert the VTT file to text here, so the timestamps and cue numbers are gone.
Join the lines into paragraphs. Meeting captions break every few seconds; paragraphs by speaker or topic read better.
Fix names once. Search and replace a misheard name across the whole text in your editor.
Keep the VTT file. It is the version with timing, useful when someone asks “when was that said?”.

When a VTT transcript needs timing again

To put captions back on the recording, open the VTT file with its video in add subtitles to video, choose a style and export an MP4. For a recording that has no caption file, video to text writes the transcript from the speech.

VTT to TXT FAQ

How do I convert VTT to TXT?+

Drop the .vtt file on the VTT to TXT converter, or paste its contents, then select Download to save the text file.

Are speaker names kept when converting VTT to text?+

Speaker names written in the caption text are kept. Names held only inside WebVTT voice tags are removed with the tags, and the words inside the tags are kept.

Does the VTT to TXT converter keep timestamps?+

The VTT to TXT converter writes text without timestamps. For a file that keeps the timing, convert the same VTT file with VTT to SRT.

Can a Zoom or Teams VTT transcript be converted to text?+

A Zoom or Microsoft Teams transcript saved as .vtt converts to plain text in the same way as any other WebVTT file.

Is the VTT file uploaded?+

The conversion runs in your browser: the subtitle file is read on your device and is not uploaded.

Need subtitles from a video?

SubtitlePop listens to your video and writes the captions for you, with word-level timing. Try the subtitle generator or make a file with the SRT generator. New to subtitle formats? Read what an SRT file is.