convert
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How long will it take to say your speech, script or narration?
Paste your text below (or enter a word count) to estimate the time. The tool calculates both speaking-aloud and silent-reading times at slow, average and fast speeds — and when you give it a target duration, it tells you exactly how many words to cut, can trim the script for you, or hand you rehearsal notes.
The revised script
What changed
Kept on purpose
What the cuts cost
Timing plan
| Starts at | Section | Length | Words | Note |
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Pause points
Hit these words
Risky spots
Delivery tips
Your script, marked up
[pause] where you breathe, *asterisks* around the words to hit. Print it, rehearse from it.
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How the counting works, and what it does not do
The word count is a whitespace count; the spoken word count adjusts it for things that are written short but said long. Digits are counted the way they are read aloud — "1,250" is closer to five words than one, a year like "2024" is about two, "$40" gets a word for "dollars", "75%" gets one for "percent", "3:30" is two. That adjusted count divided by your words-per-minute rate is the speaking time, and it is the same arithmetic the AI lanes are instructed to use, so the meter and the model agree about what a minute holds. The presets are honest averages, not laws: 130 wpm for a prepared talk, 150 for scripted narration, 110 when clarity matters more than pace. Rehearse once with a stopwatch and set the slider to what you actually measured — the timeline will re-time every paragraph to your real pace.
Estimates are estimates. Pauses for laughter, applause, slide changes and nerves are not in the number; if your talk has them, budget for them on top. The AI lanes are checked against the same counter after every run — when the model claims the revision fits your slot, this page recounts it and says where it really lands, and when a rehearsal note quotes your script, the quote is verified against the paste before it is shown as such.
Nothing to hand? Load the , an 800-word talk that runs six minutes and needs a real trim, or the , a 600-word explainer ready for rehearsal notes. Both replay a saved run for free.