Paste your transcript, enter the recording duration, and calculate your speaking rate in words per minute.
The calculator counts the words in your transcript and divides that total by the recording duration in minutes. The result is your overall WPM.
SpeechOptimizer uses 120–170 WPM as a broad practice range for short English workplace recordings. Treat it as a calibration range rather than a universal target.
Listen back for the section that feels most rushed, add one deliberate pause after the key idea, then record the same answer again. Compare clarity as well as the number.
