wordstospeech.com is a free set of timing tools for anyone who needs to know how long words take to say or read: students preparing class presentations, speakers writing to a time slot, editors labelling read times, and narrators quoting voice-over lengths.
The site is built and maintained by Umar Attique, an SEO consultant and web developer who builds calculation tools and reference sites. Every figure on this site — speaking rates, reading speeds, word-count tables — is generated from a single consistent methodology, documented in full on our How We Calculate page, so numbers never contradict each other between pages.
What you’ll find here
- The Words to Minutes Calculator — convert any word count to speaking time at your own pace.
- The Reading Time Calculator — silent and read-aloud timings for any text.
- Word-count guides for every common speech length and text length, with tables at slow, average, and fast paces.
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