Turn a transcript into clean text
Paste a YouTube transcript or drop an SRT or VTT file. Timestamps, cue numbers and repeated lines come out, and you get readable paragraphs. It all happens in your browser.
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See DeskshedTranscript cleaner at a glance
- Cost
- Free, with no watermark
- Account
- None needed
- Your data
- Stays in your browser. How to check
- You get
- Clean text, ready to copy or save as TXT
- Limits
- Works with text you already have
How to use it
Get the transcript
On YouTube, open the description, press Show transcript, then select the text and copy it. Or use an SRT or VTT file you already have.
Paste it and press Clean it
Timestamps, cue numbers and repeated lines are removed.
Copy or download
Choose how long paragraphs should be, then copy the text or save it as a TXT file.
Transcript cleaner: common questions
Can it get a transcript from a YouTube link?
This tool works only with text you give it. The YouTube transcript helper walks you through copying one from YouTube's own panel.
Why isn't there any punctuation in my transcript?
Automatic captions often have little or none, and this tool doesn't add any. Without sentence endings it can't split paragraphs, so you get one block of text.
Can I use a transcript of someone else's video?
Reading it yourself is one thing, but republishing it is another. The words usually belong to whoever made the video, so check before you post them anywhere.