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Transcript Tool Guides

Step-by-step guides for cleaning auto-generated captions, stripping timestamps and speaker labels, converting SRT to VTT, and turning raw transcripts into polished articles.

Cleaning a Zoom or Teams transcript

Export your meeting transcript as a .vtt or .txt file from Zoom or Teams. Paste it into the Zoom Transcript Cleaner or Teams Transcript Cleaner. The tool strips timestamp lines, speaker prefixes, and filler phrases in one pass, leaving plain readable text you can share as meeting notes.

Converting SRT captions to VTT for the web

SRT and VTT are structurally similar but incompatible in browsers. The SRT to VTT tool rewrites the header, fixes timestamp separators (comma → period), and outputs a valid .vtt file. Run it the other way with VTT to SRT when uploading to platforms that require SRT.

Removing filler words from a podcast transcript

Filler words (um, uh, like, you know) inflate transcript length and reduce readability. The Remove Filler Words tool scans the text and strips the most common fillers. Review the output — a few contextual uses of 'like' may be intentional and worth restoring manually.

Turning a raw transcript into a readable article

The Transcript to Article tool restructures spoken paragraphs into written prose. It merges short speaker turns, removes duplicate phrases, and splits the content into readable sections. Best results come from transcripts that have already been cleaned with Remove Timestamps and Remove Speaker Labels.