Export a transcript from your subtitles

If you already have SRT or VTT captions, you already have most of the words needed for a transcript. Extracting them is different from transcribing audio: the result comes from existing caption text and does not use speech recognition.

Start with a small example

The sample file on CueFern contains five synthetic captions, including English, Chinese and an emoji. Select Try a sample, switch to Extract text, and select Extract transcript. The output should contain the five captions without their numbers or timestamp lines.

Choose a useful layout

Keep Preserve line breaks selected when you want the original line breaks, with a blank line between cues. This is useful when reviewing or comparing caption segments. Uncheck it when you want the lines and cues joined with spaces into one paragraph.

What the export does not edit

Caption text is not corrected, summarized or translated. Repeated words, speaker descriptions and sound effects stay unless they are recognized formatting tags. An inaccurate subtitle file will produce an inaccurate transcript. Review it before treating it as a script or quotation.

Copy or download the complete result

The output panel may shorten very long previews, but Copy and Download use the full processed text. The .txt file is UTF-8. Closing or refreshing the page clears the current workspace, so save anything you need first.

Troubleshooting

If a file is rejected as non-UTF-8, open it in an editor and save a UTF-8 copy. If the parser reports a missing timestamp line, check that the file really is SRT or WebVTT instead of plain dialogue with a renamed extension. An empty or video file cannot be converted into a transcript by this tool.

Open the subtitle-to-text tool. Your subtitle content stays on your device during processing; see the privacy details.