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Strip timecodes and caption markup from an SRT file to get a clean, paragraphed transcript with word count and speaking rate.
The SRT to Plain Transcript tool strips cue numbers, timecodes and caption markup from a SubRip file and re-flows the remaining words into paragraphs. It starts a new paragraph wherever the silence between two cues is longer than the gap you set — 2 seconds by default — so the breaks fall where the speaker actually paused, and it can drop non-speech captions such as [MUSIC] or ♪ and collapse the repeated lines that roll-up captioning produces. Word count, reading time and words-per-minute speaking rate are calculated from the file itself.
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Paste or upload your source content.
Choose the target format or conversion mode.
Copy or download the converted result.
Breaks come from the actual cue timings, not from an arbitrary line count.
Sound descriptions, styling tags and repeated roll-up lines are filtered out in one pass.
Word count, characters, speaking rate and reading time are all derived from your file.
Paste or load the .srt file, and the cue numbers plus every hh:mm:ss,mmm timing line are removed automatically, leaving only the spoken text. Adjust the paragraph gap if the result runs together or breaks too often, then copy the text or download it as .txt.
Divide the word count by about 238 words per minute, the mean adult silent-reading rate for English non-fiction found in Brysbaert's 2019 meta-analysis of 190 studies. A 3,000-word transcript therefore takes roughly 13 minutes to read, against maybe 20 minutes to watch, which is why transcripts are popular.
Conversational English runs about 120 to 160 words per minute, presentations and narration a little slower at 100 to 150, and fast podcast conversation can exceed 180. This tool divides the transcript's word count by the runtime between the first and last cue, so you can compare a recording against that range.
Those come from the caption file and are only removed when the matching option is on. Non-speech captions are conventionally written inside square brackets or marked with ♪, and >> marks a change of speaker — turn the sound-cue filter on to drop the first and leave the speaker-marker option off to drop the second.
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