Convert VTT to Plain Text

They are skipped. The WebVTT spec forbids the cue arrow inside them, which is exactly how the parser tells them apart from real cues — nothing is guessed at.

Choose DOCX or PDF instead of TXT; both put a timestamp in front of each line. Plain text drops them by design, because the usual reason for wanting .txt is to paste the words somewhere else.

YouTube auto-captions roll each line into the next cue so the text scrolls on screen, so a straight export shows every line twice. Undoing that reliably needs the original audio — transcribing the video with ScribeToAny gives clean, non-overlapping segments instead.

Reading, searching and feeding to other tools. Once the WebVTT header, cue IDs and positioning are stripped, you are left with just the words — ready to paste into a document, a notes app or a summariser that would otherwise choke on a file full of timecodes. It is the quickest way to turn captions you were sent into a usable transcript.

No — it is read and converted in your browser, so a caption file sent to you in confidence stays on your machine. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and there is no size limit imposed by a server. That makes it safe for transcripts of private meetings or unreleased material, where sending the file to an online converter would not be an option.