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Clean up YouTube auto-generated captions

Drop the auto-caption file and clear the [Music] tags, speaker markers and repeated lines in one pass.

  1. Download the auto-generated track from YouTube Studio (.srt).
  2. Drop it in below — the full cleanup preset is already on.
  3. Review the fix report, download, and re-upload to YouTube.

Add subtitle files

One or many — .srt, .vtt, .sbv. Fix a batch, download it as a ZIP. Nothing leaves this device.

or

Shift timingsSRT, VTT, TXTRemove [Music] junkFix line breaksBatch ZIP

Straight answers

How do I get my auto-captions out of YouTube first?

In YouTube Studio, open the video, choose Subtitles, pick the auto-generated track, and use the edit menu to download it as .srt or .sbv. Drop the file here and the cleanup happens automatically.

What exactly gets fixed?

Sound-event junk ([Music], [Applause], ♪), HTML tags, empty cues, duplicated consecutive cues from the recognizer stutter, overlapping timings, and ragged line breaks — re-wrapped to 42 characters, two lines, Netflix-style.

Can I re-upload the cleaned file to YouTube?

Yes. The output is a valid .srt (or .vtt) with corrected timings, ready to upload as a caption track — which improves both accessibility and search indexing of your video.

Does it add punctuation with AI?

Not yet. Punctuation restoration is planned as the next step; everything else already runs instantly and privately, with zero server involvement.