Transcript Cleaner
Paste a messy transcript. Remove timestamps, speaker labels and broken lines.
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What is a transcript cleaner?
A transcript cleaner takes the raw text you exported from a video or audio recording and turns it into something readable. Recordings from YouTube, Zoom, podcasts, online courses and interviews export with timestamps on every line, speaker tags and choppy line breaks. This tool sweeps all of that away so you are left with the actual conversation.
Remove timestamps and speaker names
The two options that matter most for transcripts are on by default. Remove timestamps deletes times such as 00:00, 1:02:33 and bracketed forms like [00:12]. Remove speaker labels drops a name and colon at the start of a line, so "Speaker 1:" or "INTERVIEWER:" disappear while the words they said remain.
Clean YouTube and Zoom transcripts
YouTube auto-captions and Zoom exports tend to be long lists of tiny lines. Normalizing line breaks stitches those fragments back together, and trimming and collapsing spaces removes the gaps left behind. The result reads like a document instead of a caption file, ready to quote, summarize or publish.
From transcript to chapters
A clean transcript is the perfect starting point for video chapters. Once you have tidy text, open the YouTube Timestamp Generator to map your sections to times and copy a chapter list straight into your video description.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
How do I remove timestamps from a transcript?
Keep Remove timestamps ticked and paste your transcript. It strips bracketed times like [00:12] and bare times at the start of a line like 00:12 or 1:02:33, while leaving normal numbers in your sentences untouched.
How do I remove "John:" and other speaker labels?
Turn on Remove speaker labels. It deletes a name followed by a colon at the very start of a line (John:, Speaker 1:, INTERVIEWER:), so a colon used in the middle of a sentence stays in place.
Does it work with YouTube auto-generated transcripts?
Yes. Auto captions usually paste as many short lines with timestamps. Removing timestamps and normalizing line breaks merges them back into readable text you can edit or repurpose.
Can I turn a cleaned transcript into chapters?
Yes. Once the transcript is clean, head to the YouTube Timestamp Generator to build a copy-ready chapter list from your sections.
Will it keep my paragraphs?
By default it normalizes line breaks rather than deleting them. If your transcript is one line per caption, you can add turn line breaks into paragraphs to group the text, or leave it as is.