Why convert SRT to plain text?
- Sermon archives. Your church website needs readable text, not timecoded captions.
- Blog posts. Strip captions into clean paragraphs before formatting as a sermon recap.
- AI prompts. Feeding a sermon to ChatGPT or Claude works far better with paragraph text than SRT.
- Print bulletins. Pull a single quote without copying timestamps.
What this converter does
The converter parses standard SRT and WebVTT files line by line. It removes cue numbers, timecode lines (any line containing-->), inline HTML/VTT styling tags, and metadata blocks (NOTE, STYLE, REGION). What remains is joined into sentences and grouped into paragraphs every five sentences. It runs entirely in your browser using JavaScript, nothing is uploaded.
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