Do I need to convert my VTT to SRT first?

No. Upload the .vtt directly. Recastr parses WebVTT itself, including files with cue identifier lines, NOTE comments and STYLE blocks.

What happens to speaker tags?

Each distinct name becomes a speaker in the editor, so you can give every person their own voice. The tag itself is removed and the words are kept. Cues that carry no voice tag are grouped under a separate speaker so you can see them at a glance.

Can I upload a Zoom or Microsoft Teams transcript?

Yes, both export WebVTT. Teams marks speakers with tags and Zoom writes the name as plain text at the start of each cue. Recastr recognises both, turns the names into speakers and removes them from the spoken text, so nothing is narrated that was not said.

Are positioning and styling kept?

No. Cue settings such as position and align, and STYLE blocks, describe where text sits on a screen. The output is audio, so they are dropped and never affect timing.

How large can the VTT file be?

Subtitle uploads are capped at 1 MB, which is far more than a feature-length caption file needs. Generating the voiceover draws on your minutes: 10 free, then by plan.

What if I have an SRT or ASS file instead?

SRT files go through the SRT-to-audio workflow and ASS files through ASS-to-audio. All three formats land in the same editor and produce the same kind of timed audio.

WebVTT · .vtt · no conversion step

Turn a VTT file into audio.
Keep every cue.

Upload the WebVTT file you already have, from YouTube, Zoom, Teams or your video player, and download a voiceover where each cue is spoken in its own time slot. No conversion to SRT. No timeline work.

10 free minutes · No credit card required

How it works

1
Upload the .vtt file
Drop in the file exactly as it was exported. Recastr reads WebVTT directly.
2
Review the cue text
Header, notes, styling and positioning are already gone, and every <v> speaker is listed by name. Fix wording or delete cues you do not want spoken.
3
Choose a voice
Pick a voice, or translate the text first and pick a voice for the target language.
4
Download MP3 or WAV
Every cue is synthesised into its own start-to-end window and assembled into one file.

What Recastr reads from a WebVTT file

WebVTT carries more than words and times. This is what happens to each part. To see it for yourself, download a sample .vtt that uses all of them.

WEBVTT header and NOTE blocks: Skipped. The signature line and any comments never reach the voice.
STYLE and REGION blocks: Skipped. Audio has no layout, so CSS-style rules and named regions are ignored.
Cue identifiers: The optional label line before each timestamp is ignored. Cues are placed by time, not by name.
Timestamp format: HH:MM:SS.mmm or MM:SS.mmm with a dot before the milliseconds. The hours part is optional and both forms are read to the millisecond.
Cue settings: position, line, align and size after the arrow are dropped. They place text on a screen; the audio does not need them.
Voice tags: The name in a <v Name> tag becomes a speaker, so cues from <v Ana> and <v Ben> can be given two different voices. Cues with no voice tag share one speaker of their own. A cue that switches voice midway is split at the switch.
Inline tags: Class <c>, bold, italic, underline, ruby and karaoke timestamp tags are removed. The words inside them are kept.
Multi-line cues: Line breaks inside a cue become spaces, so a two-line caption is spoken as one sentence.

Where VTT files come from

YouTube caption exports

Download the captions for a video as WebVTT and give it a new voice, or a voice in another language, without touching the edit.

Zoom and Teams recordings

Both export meeting transcripts as .vtt. Upload it as is, tidy the text, and generate a clean narration of what was said.

Course and video platforms

Vimeo, Wistia, Kaltura and most LMS players store captions as WebVTT for the HTML5 track element. Reuse that file instead of re-transcribing.

Accessibility teams

Captions written for compliance are already timed and proofread. That makes them the cleanest possible script for an audio version.

This is not a VTT-to-SRT converter

Converters rewrite the timestamps into SRT and hand the file back to you, and the voiceover is still your problem. Recastr reads WebVTT natively, so there is no intermediate SRT, nothing to re-upload, and the cue times you got from YouTube or Zoom are the ones the audio is generated against.

Zoom and Teams transcripts, as exported

Teams marks speakers with <v> tags; Zoom writes the name as ordinary text at the start of every cue. Recastr reads both, so each person arrives as their own speaker, ready for their own voice, and no name is read out as part of the narration.

Cues you delete stay silent

Remove a cue in the editor and nothing is generated for its time window. A caption for on-screen text or a [MUSIC] marker never turns into narration.

Watch it work

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to convert my VTT to SRT first?: No. Upload the .vtt directly. Recastr parses WebVTT itself, including files with cue identifier lines, NOTE comments and STYLE blocks.
What happens to speaker <v> tags?: Each distinct name becomes a speaker in the editor, so you can give every person their own voice. The tag itself is removed and the words are kept. Cues that carry no voice tag are grouped under a separate speaker so you can see them at a glance.
Can I upload a Zoom or Microsoft Teams transcript?: Yes, both export WebVTT. Teams marks speakers with <v> tags and Zoom writes the name as plain text at the start of each cue. Recastr recognises both, turns the names into speakers and removes them from the spoken text, so nothing is narrated that was not said.
Are positioning and styling kept?: No. Cue settings such as position and align, and STYLE blocks, describe where text sits on a screen. The output is audio, so they are dropped and never affect timing.
How large can the VTT file be?: Subtitle uploads are capped at 1 MB, which is far more than a feature-length caption file needs. Generating the voiceover draws on your minutes: 10 free, then by plan.
What if I have an SRT or ASS file instead?: SRT files go through the SRT-to-audio workflow and ASS files through ASS-to-audio. All three formats land in the same editor and produce the same kind of timed audio.

Ready to hear your captions?

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Turn a VTT file into audio. Keep every cue.