⏱️ Voiceover Script Timer

About this tool

Every narration pace is a words-per-minute number: measured documentary delivery runs about 130 wpm, natural YouTube narration about 140, and energetic delivery about 155. A script that ignores those numbers produces the two classic failures — a video that ends at 6 minutes when the topic needed 10 (thin, unsatisfying), or a 14-minute ramble cut from a 10-minute promise (retention cliff). This timer makes the number visible before you record a single word.

The verdict is the useful part: it compares your script against your target at natural pace and names the gap in words — cut roughly 120, add roughly 200 — because 'a bit long' is not an editing instruction and a word count is. Use it together with the Script Generator: the outline gives each section a word budget, and this timer audits the finished draft against the total.

How to use it

1. Paste the complete, final script — timing a draft times the wrong video.
2. Set the target length your title and thumbnail are promising.
3. Read the three pace rows; plan around the middle one unless your delivery is deliberately slow or fast.
4. Apply the verdict: cut or add the stated words, then re-time once.

Tips from real creator workflows

• Time the hook separately: the first 100 words are your first ~45 seconds, and they carry the whole video.
• If you must cut, cut examples before points — a video with three points and one example each beats two points padded with three.
• Write to 95% of target: real delivery adds pauses, emphasis and breaths that the page does not.

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