Check Required Speaking Rate Against Captioner Speed — Free
Live captioners carry a real top speed. Divide each session’s words by its minutes and compare the required rate with the words per minute your captioner can actually sustain.
The proof surface
Caption reading-speed audits check that finished captions can be read. This checks the production side before the session: whether the speaker’s pace, script density and question load stay inside the captioner’s working speed.
Why the flat version breaks
Budgeting from average speaking rate
Average rates hide the bursts that break the captioner’s buffer.
Forgetting the questions
Unscripted Q&A is usually the fastest speech of the session.
Solving an over-speed session by dropping captions
The fix is pace, staffing or script access; the access is not negotiable.
How to work the speaking rate indexcard
Script words plus the expected questions and answers. An auctioneer’s lot call is a different density from a workshop’s paced demo.
The speaking minutes inside the slot — excluding the video, the break, the applause you can cover at leisure.
From the captioner or the agency, in their words: many live captioners work comfortably around the eighty words-per-minute mark, faster in bursts. Book the rate they confirm, not the rate you hope for.
The indexcard shows the required rate per session and flags the ones over the maximum. A four-hundred-fifty-word auction lot in four minutes demands a hundred and twelve words per minute — over an eighty maximum, so that session needs a faster captioner, a script in advance, or a slower call.
What the speaking rate indexcard replaces
| Question | Before | Visible working |
|---|---|---|
| Budgeting from average speaking rate | Average rates hide the bursts that break the captioner’s buffer. | Measure the minutes of real speech |
| Forgetting the questions | Unscripted Q&A is usually the fastest speech of the session. | Set the captioner’s sustainable maximum |
| Solving an over-speed session by dropping captions | The fix is pace, staffing or script access; the access is not negotiable. | Slow down or split the fastest session |
A local arithmetic aid replaces hand calculation, not expert review. No paid AI service is needed.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Input is processed locally and a draft is saved automatically in this browser profile when storage is available. Reset to sample clears that draft; Pro history has its own clear button. A state link encodes your inputs in its URL: share only non-sensitive rows. Browser history, clipboard and anyone receiving the link may retain it. Optional AI use below leaves this device; it is not required.
Rate arithmetic on the words and minutes you supply. Not an accessibility certification or captioning standard; agreed caption rates, styles and access arrangements come from the captioner, the access coordinator and the participants who rely on them.
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the speaking rate indexcard: your session | words spoken | minutes of speech stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a index card with a stamped header
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the speaking rate indexcard reading, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 4 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The speaking rate indexcard reading is complete for free. The optional $4 layer adds print, row CSV and the last five local reading summaries; it does not add hidden answers. Checkout is not configured yet; the article demo remains unlimited.
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Rate arithmetic on the words and minutes you supply. Not an accessibility certification or captioning standard; agreed caption rates, styles and access arrangements come from the captioner, the access coordinator and the participants who rely on them.
What this is built on
- Method: From the captioner or the agency, in their words: many live captioners work comfortably around the eighty words-per-minute mark, faster in bursts. Book the rate they confirm, not the rate you hope for.
- All sample records are invented examples. The app does not fetch measurements, policies, files or personal records.
- Google’s official pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, lists free-tier access including AI Studio. Optional formatting only; limits and availability can change. Free-tier content may be used to improve products. Never paste private records there.
Before: Average rates hide the bursts that break the captioner’s buffer. After: the speaking rate indexcard shows the working beside each named row so the reader can change the assumption and inspect the consequence.
Optional AI formatting, not calculation
For this speaking rate indexcard, use the free AI Studio interface only if available to you, with no paid API key. Manual entry completes the same workflow for free. Supply only fictional or non-sensitive notes. Review its output against the source; never paste unresolved questions into the numeric rows.
Format my non-sensitive notes for a speaking rate indexcard. Return plain rows only: session | words spoken | minutes of speech. Preserve supplied quantities exactly. Do not guess missing values; list questions separately. Do not calculate or add advice. I will check every row before pasting into the local tool.
Accepted schema: session | words spoken | minutes of speech. No AI response is executed as code.