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Remove hearing-impaired text from subtitles

SDH subtitles describe sounds for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers: [door slams], (sighs), JOHN: and song lyrics. Remove them in one click for clean, dialogue-only subtitles. Lines left empty are deleted.

How to use it

1

Load your subtitle file.

2

Tick what to remove: brackets, parentheses, speaker names, song lyrics.

3

Check the preview and download the clean file.

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Questions and answers

What does SDH mean?

Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of hearing. Besides the dialogue they describe sounds, music and who is speaking. Streaming services often offer only SDH subtitles in English.

Will it remove text I want to keep?

Only what you tick. Speaker names are found when they are written in capitals before a colon (JOHN:). The preview shows the result before you download.

Can I also remove italics and colours?

Yes, with remove formatting tags.

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