Word to SRT — From Document to Timed Captions
Paste text from Word or any editor and get a timed SRT — smart quotes cleaned up, sentences cued, paced to read.
Quick answer: Copy the text from your document and paste it into the box: quotes and dashes are normalised, sentences become cues timed at your chosen reading speed, and you download a standard .srt — the document itself is never uploaded.
Drop a .txt transcript — or paste below. The file never leaves your device.
| Input | Pasted text from Word, Google Docs, Pages, email… |
|---|---|
| Cleaned | Smart quotes → straight, non-breaking spaces → normal |
| Timing | Reading-speed estimate, adjustable (default 17 chars/sec) |
| Output | SRT, 42-char two-line wrapping |
| Note | Paste, not upload — the .docx layout never leaves your machine |
What this tool does
Scripts written in word processors carry invisible luggage: curly quotes, en-dashes, non-breaking spaces, list markers. Pasted into a plain subtitle pipeline they either survive as encoding artefacts or break parsing. This converter cleans them to plain ASCII as it splits your text into sentence-sized, timed cues — the same pacing engine as the plain-text converter, tuned for the way documents are actually written. It deliberately works by paste: Word files themselves are ZIP containers with layout, and the words are all a subtitle needs.
Common uses
- A voice-over script in Word becomes captions for the finished video
- A interview transcript in Google Docs becomes a caption draft
- Lyrics or poetry documents turned into readable cue cards