Free tool · VTTTXT

Convert VTT
to TXT

Pull captions out of a .vtt file as plain text. Useful for blog posts, show notes, search indexing, or feeding a transcript to an LLM.

Input · VTT
Output · TXT
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Frequently asked

Does this work with YouTube auto-captions?+

Yes — if you've downloaded a .vtt from YouTube, paste it in. Inline cue tags (<c>, <i>, etc.) are stripped automatically.

Why use this instead of copying from YouTube directly?+

YouTube's transcript panel includes timestamps and noisy formatting. A clean .vtt → text pass gives you just the words, line by line.

Will it preserve speaker labels?+

If your .vtt encodes speakers using `<v Speaker>` tags, they're stripped. For preserved labels, edit the .vtt manually before converting.

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