Media

SDH Annotation Cleaner

Strip hearing-impaired (SDH) noise from subtitles: bracketed sound effects like [APPLAUSE] and (engine rumbles), speaker labels like JOHN: or NARRATOR -, music-note lines ♪ ♫ — then drop the empty cues left behind.

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/srt-sdh-annotation-cleaner' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"subtitleText":"1\n00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,000\n♪ [GENTLE PIANO MUSIC] ♪\n\n2\n00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:05,500\n[ENGINE RUMBLING]\n\n3\n00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,000\nJOHN: We need to talk.\n\n4\n00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:10,500\n(quietly, to himself)\nThis is not good.","cleanMode":"standard","removeSpeakers":true,"removeMusicNotes":true,"keepLyricText":false,"outputFormat":"srt"}'

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/srt-sdh-annotation-cleaner

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
subtitleText	textarea	Yes	—
cleanMode	select	No	—
removeSpeakers	checkbox	No	—
removeMusicNotes	checkbox	No	—
keepLyricText	checkbox	No	—

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-srt-sdh-annotation-cleaner": {
      "name": "srt-sdh-annotation-cleaner",
      "description": "Strip hearing-impaired (SDH) noise from subtitles: bracketed sound effects like [APPLAUSE] and (engine rumbles), speaker labels like JOHN: or NARRATOR -, music-note lines ♪ ♫ — then drop the empty cues left behind.",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=srt-sdh-annotation-cleaner",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "srt-sdh-annotation-cleaner",
    "arguments": {
  "subtitleText": "1\n00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,000\n♪ [GENTLE PIANO MUSIC] ♪\n\n2\n00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:05,500\n[ENGINE RUMBLING]\n\n3\n00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,000\nJOHN: We need to talk.\n\n4\n00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:10,500\n(quietly, to himself)\nThis is not good.",
  "cleanMode": "standard",
  "removeSpeakers": true,
  "removeMusicNotes": true,
  "keepLyricText": false,
  "outputFormat": "srt"
}
  }
}