Cleaning and Formatting Subtitles

Auto captions can be noisy. Use these practical steps to tidy text and produce clean exports in Transcript In Progress.

Remove Noise

• Trim filler words and repetitive phrases where they hurt readability.
• Delete non-speech markers unless they are meaningful to your audience.
• Fix capitalization for sentence starts and proper nouns.

Keep Structure

• Group short lines into coherent sentences for TXT export.
• Maintain timestamps when preparing SRT/VTT for editing or web playback.
• Use consistent punctuation for clarity.

Export Tips

• Choose TXT for quick reading and summarizing.
• Choose SRT for video editors; keep lines concise for on-screen display.
• Choose VTT for websites; test in your player to verify timing.

A few minutes of cleanup dramatically improves readability and user experience. Start simple, keep structure, and export in the format that matches your workflow.

Conclusion

Clean captions communicate better. Remove noise, keep sentences clear, and choose TXT/SRT/VTT based on how you’ll use the text. Generate a transcript and test an export in your toolchain.