VTT to SRT Converter

Many video editors, TVs, media players and upload forms want SubRip (.srt) subtitles, while browsers, YouTube downloads and online courses hand you WebVTT (.vtt). This converter turns VTT into clean SRT in your browser: it drops the WEBVTT header, notes, style and region blocks, cue identifiers and position settings, converts the times, keeps italics and bold, and decodes HTML entities. YouTube's automatic captions — where every caption repeats the previous line — are cleaned up into normal, readable subtitles.

How to use this tool

1. Choose one or more .vtt files, or paste the WebVTT text.
2. Choose how to treat repeated lines, speaker names and formatting tags.
3. Copy the SRT text, or download the .srt files (several come as one ZIP).
4. Load the .srt file into your player, editor or upload form.

Formula

VTT 01:02.500 --> 01:04.000 line:0 → SRT 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:04,000 (settings removed, cues renumbered)

WebVTT may leave out the hours and uses a full stop before the milliseconds; SRT always writes hh:mm:ss,mmm and numbers each cue from 1. Voice tags (<v Name>) are removed or turned into "Name: ", class and language spans (<c.yellow>, <lang en>) and ruby annotations are removed, and &amp;, &lt;, &gt; and &nbsp; become ordinary characters. For automatic captions, the lines a caption repeats from the one before and the 10-ms transition cues are removed.

Example

A YouTube automatic-caption file with 5 cues — "hello world", then the same line plus "this is a test", then that line plus "bye now", with 10-ms cues in between — becomes 3 subtitles: "hello world" (0:00.000–0:02.030), "this is a test" (0:02.040–0:04.500) and "bye now" (0:04.510–0:06.000).