Presentation slots in Nepali coursework are short and enforced — ten or fifteen minutes for a seminar paper, a fixed window for a project defence. Running over means being stopped before your conclusion, which is the part carrying your argument.
Paste your script and this calculator estimates both silent reading time and speaking time, so you can cut to the slot before you are standing in front of the panel rather than during.
Silent reading runs around 200 to 250 words per minute for an adult reader. Speaking aloud at a pace an audience can follow runs closer to 130 to 150. That is roughly half the speed, and it is the single most common reason a presentation overruns.
Presenting in a second language slows this further, as does an audience listening in a second language. If your panel and classmates are following English as an additional language, pacing at 120 to 130 words per minute is more realistic and considerably easier to follow.
As a working figure, a ten-minute presentation is about 1,200 to 1,300 spoken words. Fifteen minutes is around 1,900. Those numbers assume continuous speech, which no real presentation is.
Subtract time for everything that is not script: moving between slides, pointing at a figure, pausing after a key finding, and any interruption from the panel. Budget about 80% of your slot for the script itself and you will finish comfortably instead of racing the last three slides.
A viva answer that runs past two minutes usually stops being an answer. Roughly 250 spoken words is two minutes — check your prepared answers to the obvious questions against that figure and cut them down.
The questions worth preparing are predictable: why this methodology, why this sample size, what are the limitations, what would you do differently. A crisp 90-second answer to each reads as command of your material; a five-minute one reads as avoidance.
It counts words and divides by a rate, so it cannot know that a page of statistical tables takes far longer to talk through than a page of narrative, or that a dense methodology section needs slower delivery.
Use it as a first pass, then rehearse aloud with a timer. Almost everyone speaks faster when nervous, so a rehearsal that lands exactly on the limit will usually come in short on the day — which is the safer direction to be wrong in.
About 1,200 to 1,300 spoken words at a comfortable pace, and less if you need time for slides, pauses or questions.
Around 130 to 150 words per minute for a general audience, and nearer 120 to 130 when presenting in English to an audience listening in a second language.
Silent reading runs at 200 to 250 words per minute; speaking clearly runs at roughly half that.
Usually under two minutes, which is about 250 spoken words. Prepare crisp answers to the predictable questions.
Yes. Nerves increase speaking pace, so rehearse aloud and expect the live version to run slightly shorter.