Extract text from Conversation files (CONV)
To convert CONV Conversations to another format, you need ConvoKit or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Conversation Script File" file type, you need software like ConvoKit or a similar tool.
A .CONV file is a conversation data container. It primarily has two very different use cases. First, it functions as a game dialogue script file used by Jackbox Games to store the text and logic for titles like the Jackbox Party Pack. Second, it serves as a chatbot conversation training data file, heavily utilized in Natural language processing by tools like the ChatterBot corpus and ConvoKit.
The main disadvantage of the .CONV format is its complete lack of standardization. It is a proprietary, localized file type. A game script file is tied strictly to the proprietary game engine and includes custom triggers for timing, audio, and animation. A chatbot corpus file relies on specific Python environments to parse correctly. This means a .CONV file is often useless outside of its original software ecosystem.
Users typically need to convert .CONV files to standard text formats like TXT, JSON, or CSV. This allows developers and modders to read the raw dialogue, edit game scripts, or train different machine learning models. However, forcibly changing the extension or extracting the text often strips away critical metadata, such as the engine-specific logic that triggers a game event.
Because this is a closed, proprietary format heavily dependent on its host software, standard online converters fail to process it. The file structure varies entirely depending on whether a game developer or an NLP researcher created it. Often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, just drag and drop your .CONV file into convert.guru to identify the format. We can inspect the file, bypass the custom extension, and show text or internal content. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format like JSON or plain text, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your CONV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert CONV file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use ConvoKit or similar software from the "Dialogue and Conversation Data" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to CONV, try ConvoKit or another comparable tool in the "Dialogue and Conversation Data" category.
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