Prompts & writing
Voiceover Script Timer
Scripts are written in words and sold in seconds. This converts between the two before you record.
Estimated runtime
0:23
Fits your 60s target with 37s to spare — room for about 92 more words.
- Words
- 43
- Characters
- 241
- Pace used
- 150 words per minute
- AI text-to-speech cost
- $0.07
- Human voice artist cost
- $46
- Studio time to record & edit
- 1 min
Getting the timing right on the first take
One hundred and fifty words a minute is the working average for narration. Advertising reads run faster and explainers for technical material run slower, which is why the pace selector changes the answer by up to a third on the same script.
Pauses are where amateur timings fail. A thirty-second spot with four one-second beats is a twenty-six-second script, and cutting those four words at the end never sounds as good as writing shorter in the first place.
Studio time is estimated at three and a half times finished runtime, covering retakes, noise cleanup and levelling. Synthetic voices remove that multiplier entirely, which is usually a bigger saving than the per-character price difference.