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TTML to TXT converter, without the upload.

Turn TTML subtitles into TXT. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.

Drop TTML files here

or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V

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How to convert TTML to TXT

  1. Add your TTML subtitles

    Drop TTML (DFXP) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.

  2. TXT is already chosen

    Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.

  3. Download

    Save the TXT, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.

Why ToAny

  • Private by construction

    The TTML to TXT converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your subtitles are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.

  • No upload, no queue

    Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.

  • Free, without an account

    No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.

TTML to TXT: what to expect

TTML is verbose XML that many consumer players cannot read. Plain text opens on every device and is easy to search or paste elsewhere. TTML is at home in subtitles delivered to broadcasters and streaming services; TXT is the usual choice for notes, logs and text that must be read by anything.

The text is read as UTF-8 or UTF-16, whichever the file is. An older file in another code page is read using the charset it declares, or as Windows-1252 if it declares none, so accented letters in an unlabelled legacy file can come out wrong. A file that is not text, such as the picture-based subtitles of a DVD, is refused instead of being converted to nonsense. Times in clock, offset, frame and tick form are all understood, and a region's position is kept as the cue's position. The result is a transcript with one cue per line, without times; a cue's own line breaks become spaces.

TTML vs TXT

TTML

TTML subtitles

TTML is the W3C's XML subtitle format. Streaming services and broadcasters deliver captions in TTML profiles such as IMSC. It can describe regions, styles and timing precisely, but it is verbose, and many consumer players do not read it. DFXP is an earlier profile of it.

Opens in Broadcast and streaming systems, Apple and Netflix workflows, and some video players

TTML converter
TXT

Plain text

A TXT file is characters and nothing else: no fonts, no images, no layout. That makes it the most portable document there is, and the easiest to search, diff or feed into another program.

Opens in Every device and every text editor

TXT converter
TTML compared with TXT
TTMLTTML subtitlesTXTPlain text
Stands forTimed Text Markup LanguagePlain text
TypeSubtitlesUnformatted text
CompressionNone (XML text)None
Introduced2010, by the W3CThe 1960s, by no single author
Opens inBroadcast and streaming systems, Apple and Netflix workflows, and some video playersEvery device and every text editor
Best forSubtitles delivered to broadcasters and streaming servicesNotes, logs and text that must be read by anything
File extension.ttml, .dfxp.txt, .text, .log

Questions

Are my subtitles uploaded anywhere?

No. The TTML to TXT conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.

Is anything lost when converting TTML to TXT?

The content is carried over as faithfully as TXT allows; features that TXT does not have are left out.

Can I convert several TTML files at once?

Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.

How do I convert TTML to TXT on Windows, Mac, iPhone or Android?

The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the TTML file, press Convert and save the TXT. There is nothing to install.

Is there a file size limit?

Yes, but a subtitle file is small. Files up to 50 MB are accepted, far more than any real subtitle file. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.