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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