SRT to Word Converter

How to convert SRT to Word

1. Drop the .srt or .vtt file into the box above. The file card shows how many subtitles were read, the detected format and when the last subtitle ends.
2. Under "Layout", pick "Table with timecodes", "Lines with start times" or "Plain transcript paragraphs".
3. Look over the first subtitles in the preview panel to confirm the text and times were read correctly. The preview lists subtitles; the layout is applied when the document is written.
4. Press "Convert and download". The .docx takes the name of your subtitle file, and that name also appears as a bold title line at the top of the document.
5. Open it in Microsoft Word, Word on the web, Google Docs or LibreOffice Writer. A .docx is an Office Open XML document, so all of them read it.

One subtitle in each layout

Table with timecodes

one row: 14, 00:01:12,480, 00:01:15,900, and both lines in the Text cell with the line break kept

Lines with start times

one paragraph: [00:01:12] We moved the launch to March, pending the safety review.

Plain transcript paragraphs

the words join the subtitles around them, with no times at all

If you open an SRT directly in Word instead, you get the raw file: the cue number, the arrow line and the text, block after block. That is fine for a quick look and awkward for anything else.

The review table

The table layout has four columns: #, Start, End and Text. The Text column takes most of the width, the times are written exactly as in SRT (hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds), and every subtitle is one row with thin grey borders. This is the layout to send when someone has to approve wording against the video: a client checking product names, a lawyer checking a statement, or a proofreader going through a lecture.

A few things are worth knowing before you send it:

• Rows are numbered 1, 2, 3 in time order. If your SRT had gaps in its numbering, or was not sorted, the # column will not match the old cue numbers, so refer to times rather than numbers in feedback.
• The page is set up as US Letter portrait with one-inch margins. If you print on A4, change the paper size in the page setup first.
• There is no empty column for comments. To add one, click in the Text column and use your word processor's insert-column command to add a column on its right. Reviewers can also use Word comments or Track Changes on the Text cells.

A two-language review document

This tool changes the format, not the language. For a translation check, there are two practical set-ups.

The simplest is to add a column next to Text, as above, and let the translator type the target-language line in each row. Everyone sees the source, its timing and the translation side by side.

If you already have a subtitle file in each language, combine them first with the dual subtitles maker, saving the result as stacked SRT. Then convert that file here: each Text cell holds the first language on one line and the second language below it. Italic tags from the dual file are removed when the file is read, so both lines appear as plain text. If you only have the source language, the video translator can produce subtitles in another language from the video's audio.

Transcript and timed layouts

"Plain transcript paragraphs" reads like a document rather than a subtitle list. Line breaks inside a subtitle become spaces, consecutive subtitles join into one paragraph, and a new paragraph starts whenever there is a pause of two seconds or more between one subtitle and the next. A dialogue dash at the very start of a paragraph is dropped; dashes elsewhere stay. It suits interview write-ups, lecture notes or a script you want to reuse.

"Lines with start times" gives one paragraph per subtitle with its start in square brackets. The time is cut to whole seconds, not rounded, so a subtitle at 00:01:12,980 is shown as [00:01:12]. This is handy for meeting notes and quotes, because each line can be found in the video again.

If you need plain text instead of a document, VTT to TXT writes a .txt file from SRT or VTT.

What is kept and what is lost

Kept

All subtitle text, start and end times to the millisecond (table layout), line breaks inside a subtitle (table layout)

Removed when the file is read

Italic, bold and colour tags, position tags such as {\an8}, VTT cue settings, cue identifiers and NOTE or STYLE blocks

Not added

Speaker names, headers and footers, a choice of font or page size

Getting edits back into an SRT

The converter does not read .docx files, so a corrected Word document does not turn back into subtitles by itself. Pick the route that fits the size of the changes.

For a handful of corrections, open the original SRT in the subtitle editor, find each line by its time in the reviewer's table, fix it there and export a new SRT. The editor also warns about lines over 42 characters and reading speeds above 21 characters per second, which matters if a reviewer lengthened lines.

For many changes, copy the whole table from Word into a spreadsheet, keep the header row (#, Start, End, Text), and save it as CSV. The subtitle converters read CSV files that have Start, End and Text columns; the SRT to Excel page explains the expected columns and how to turn the CSV back into SRT.

Limits

• One subtitle file at a time, text-based formats only. Files over 20 MB are refused.
• Files that are not UTF-8 or UTF-16 are read as Western European (Windows-1252), and a note says so. If accented or non-Latin letters look wrong in the preview, fix the file with the subtitle encoding converter first.
• No subtitle file yet? The subtitle generator transcribes the audio of a video for 1 credit (0.1¢) per minute, with a minimum of 5 credits per file, so a 30-minute talk costs 30 credits (3¢). Download the SRT, then convert it here.