Podcast length estimator

Paste a transcript and see how long it will run when spoken. Set your target duration and it tells you how many words to cut, or how many you still need.

Transcript

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Ignore speaker labels and timestamps

Where the time goes

Longest paragraphs first. If you are over target, the highlighted rows are the cheapest places to cut.

Paragraph	Words	Time	Share	Cut?

How the estimate is calculated

Words are counted as spoken: numbers are expanded to the words a voice will say ("1,240" counts as five words), percentages read as "percent".
Duration = spoken words ÷ your pace, plus pauses: 0.35 s at each sentence end, 0.15 s at each comma or colon, 0.6 s between paragraphs.
Acronyms count as one word. If a script spells them out ("I-R"), it counts as two.
This is an estimate for planning, not a measurement. A real read differs by 5–10%, mostly from pace changes and breaths.

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