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Turn Zoom or Teams captions into a Word document
Meeting recordings come with a caption file full of timings. Turn it into a clean transcript you can read, edit and share.
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Why convert the caption file
Zoom and Teams save captions as VTT files: every few words on their own line, with times in between. They are great for video players and hard for people to read.
Turning them into paragraphs gives you meeting notes you can search, quote from and paste into a report.
When you might need this
- Meeting minutesStart minutes from what was actually said.
- Interviews and researchA transcript of a recorded interview to code, quote or translate.
- Lectures and trainingNotes from a recorded session for people who missed it.
Key benefits
- Readable paragraphsLines are joined into paragraphs; a pause starts a new one.
- Times if you want themKeep a time at the start of each line to find moments in the recording.
- ConfidentialMeeting content never leaves your device.
How to make the transcript
- Download the transcript: in Zoom, from the cloud recording (Audio transcript); in Teams, from the meeting recap (Download as .vtt).
- Open the .vtt file in Subtitles to text.
- Choose Word or text, and whether to show times.
- Press Convert and save the transcript.
Tips
- Turn on "Remove sound descriptions" to drop [MUSIC] and speaker labels in capitals.
- For translation, SRT to Excel puts each line in a spreadsheet row instead.
- Teams can also give you a .docx directly; the VTT is handier when you want times.
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Questions
Are speaker names kept?
Names that are part of the caption text are kept. The option to remove sound descriptions also removes names written in capitals followed by a colon.
Can I convert several meetings at once?
Yes. Open all the files together and save the transcripts as a ZIP.
Does it work with YouTube captions?
Yes, and with SRT, SBV and ASS subtitle files too.
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