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Paste a YouTube transcript and remove timestamps and duplicate lines for cleaner text.
đź”’ Paste transcript text shown by YouTube. This tool does not fetch subtitles from a YouTube URL.
Paste transcript text that you copied from YouTube and clean timestamps, adjacent duplicate lines and standalone cue labels such as [Music]. This tool does not fetch subtitles from a YouTube URL.
0:00 / Hello / 0:03 / Today… can be cleaned into speech-focused text when timestamp removal is enabled.Duplicate removal is intentionally limited to identical neighboring lines. The same sentence appearing later remains. The cleaner also does not fully identify speaker names or every possible subtitle cue used by every video.
The page does not download captions or analyze a video. First display the transcript on YouTube, then copy and paste the text you are allowed to work with.
It can remove lines that contain only a time as well as timestamps placed at the beginning of a transcript line. Leave the option off when timing information matters to your work.
Copy glitches often repeat the same line immediately. Removing only neighboring duplicates avoids deleting a legitimate sentence that happens to be repeated later in the video.
One utterance per line is better for subtitle or quote review. Readable paragraphs are easier for reading, summarizing or drafting notes from the transcript.
Names, technical terms, punctuation and recognition errors can still be wrong in the source transcript. Verify important quotes or claims against the original video before publishing them.