Transcript Word Counter
Paste any transcript or piece of text and get a full breakdown: total words, characters with and without spaces, unique words, estimated reading time at 200 WPM, and estimated speaking time at 150 WPM. Useful when you are budgeting a script, planning a podcast episode, or estimating how long a video version will run.
How to use it
- Paste your transcript into the textarea.
- Stats update as you type.
- Use the reading time for blog posts and articles.
- Use the speaking time for podcast or video script planning.
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What counts as a word?
Any group of characters separated by whitespace. Hyphenated terms count as one word, contractions count as one word.
How accurate is the speaking time?
It assumes 150 WPM, which matches a conversational podcast pace. Faster hosts will undershoot the estimate, slower narrators will overshoot it.
How is the unique word count calculated?
Words are lowercased, stripped of common punctuation, then deduplicated. So Cat, cat, and cat. all count as the same word.