Subtitles for accessibility carry extra markup: italic tags, speaker names, and bracketed sound cues that you may not want in a clean read.
This cleaner strips those extras based on your toggles, removing tags, speaker labels and music or sound notes to leave just the readable lines.
How to use Subtitle Cleaner
- Paste your subtitles into the left panel.
- Toggle Remove formatting tags, Remove speaker labels, and Remove sound and music cues.
- Copy the cleaned text from the right panel or download it.
What you can do with it
- Clean captions for a readable transcript.
- Prepare subtitles for translation.
- Strip sound cues from accessibility subtitles.
Good to know
Cleaning is different from validating an SRT, this tool focuses on readability. Sound cues in brackets, music note symbols, leading speaker labels and markup tags are removed when their toggles are on.
Frequently asked questions
What are sound and music cues?
Bracketed notes like a music or applause cue and music note symbols, which describe audio rather than speech.
How are speaker labels detected?
A short capitalized name followed by a colon at the start of a line is treated as a speaker label and removed when the toggle is on.
Does it renumber the cues?
No. This tool cleans the text; use an SRT formatter when you need valid numbering and spacing.