Interview and podcast transcripts prefix every line with a speaker name, which you often want gone for a clean read.
This tool removes those labels, whether they use a name and a colon or a bracketed name, while taking care not to strip normal sentences that happen to contain a colon.
How to use Speaker Label Remover
- Paste your transcript with speaker labels into the left panel.
- Toggle which patterns to remove: Name labels, bracketed labels, or only ALL-CAPS names.
- Copy the cleaned dialogue from the right panel or download it.
What you can do with it
- Remove speaker names from an interview transcript.
- Clean a podcast transcript for an article.
- Strip labels while keeping the dialogue.
Good to know
A careful label rule should not remove a normal sentence such as one that opens with a word and a colon. This tool only strips a short leading name followed by a colon, so ordinary sentences are preserved.
Frequently asked questions
Will it remove a normal sentence with a colon?
No. Only a short leading name plus colon is treated as a label, so a sentence like a definition that uses a colon is kept.
Can it handle multi-word speaker names?
Yes. A few capitalized words before the colon are recognized as a speaker name.
What about ALL-CAPS names only?
Turn on the ALL-CAPS option to remove only fully capitalized names and leave mixed-case prefixes.