Giving a speech filter: IS there any online service or program that you can put in a block of text and it will tell approximately you how long it'll take to read it out loud? [more inside]
posted by rileyray3000 on Sep 10, 2009 - 13 answers

Is there a word count program that you can set to measure the number of words typed in a period of time rather than the number of words that appear on the page? [more inside]
posted by carmen on Aug 17, 2009 - 4 answers

PhD Filter: First year into my course, one chapter written, MS Word can no longer take the strain. It's a humanities PhD, I need a cheap/free alternative... all help appreciated. [more inside]
posted by Augenblick on Aug 29, 2008 - 37 answers

Is there a javascript bookmark available that I can nest on my toolbar that will give me a word count for whatever text I have highlighted (in a text box or otherwise)? Or maybe a firefox addon or greasemonkey script that would do the same? [more inside]
posted by (bb|[^b]{2}) on Dec 27, 2007 - 7 answers

How do I get a global wordcount for every post made on my MT 2.66 blog? [more inside]
posted by Marquis on Nov 27, 2005 - 6 answers

So I'm trying to write a Word macro to count how many words there are on the current page of the document. It's not going well. [more inside]
posted by reklaw on Aug 3, 2005 - 7 answers

How can I find out the word count of a published book? [more inside]
posted by NotMyselfRightNow on Jun 20, 2005 - 7 answers

I've heard many times that if you read the front page of the newspaper, you would have gone through more words than if you listened to a half hour TV broadcast news show. With this in mind, I am wondering: how many words are there, on average on the front page of a newspaper? What about inside? Does the format (broadsheet vs. tabloid) make a difference? If yes, how many words for each?
posted by TNLNYC on May 20, 2005 - 7 answers