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Speech time calculator

Estimates how long a script takes to speak at slow, average, fast, or custom pace, adding sentence, paragraph, and pause time plus a section timeline.

Paste your script or give a word count, then press Estimate.

This is a planning estimate, not a stopwatch. The sentence count is terminator-based, so abbreviations like "e.g." count as sentence ends, and a trailing run of words without punctuation counts as one sentence. [pause] markers are stripped before the word count because you do not speak them. Silent reading uses 238 words a minute, the average silent rate from Brysbaert's 2019 review, which is not a speaking rate. The tool cannot hear delivery, audience laughter, or where you will actually slow down; time a real rehearsal for that.

Script and pace

ScriptPaste or type what you will say. [pause] markers add their own seconds, up to 100,000 characters.

Or just wordsUsed only when the script box is empty, up to 10,000,000

Speaking pacePresentation averages sit near 130 words a minute

Your words per minuteCustom pace only, 60 to 400

More settings

Per sentence (s)

Per paragraph gap (s)

[pause] length (s)

Target minutes

Target seconds

Pauses and the target limit both need a pasted script to count against: each pause is capped at 300 seconds, the target at 24 hours. With only a word count there is no structure to pause, so the estimate is pure speaking time.

Nothing leaves this tab: the script is counted and timed where it is typed, and nothing is uploaded or stored.

Runs on this device. Nothing is uploaded.

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