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How many minutes?

Enter the number of words or pages in the document. See how long the full narration will run and whether it fits your quota.

The number of words on a page varies a great deal from document to document, so entering pages is an assumption. You can get the word count from the “word count” feature of Word or your PDF reader.

19 minestimate for the full narration

2,000 words, about 16,700 characters. At a speaking rate of 14.9 characters a second the narration runs 18.7 minutes; rounded up to the next 30 seconds, that is 19 min.

The real video is usually shorter than this: Zıpır does not read the whole document, it picks the sentences to narrate. The real length is shown on the approval screen, before any of your minutes are used.

The document is 19 min; a single video is at most 15 min, so you can split the document in two before you upload.

Target: Whole document, 15 min

A single video is at most 15 min; if the document is longer, split it before you upload. The comparison assumes you have used no minutes yet this month.

  • Studio (15 min)Fits, 0 min left
  • Team (60 min)Fits, 45 min left
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How to use it

  1. Enter the length of the document. Type the number of words or pages in the document. If you enter pages, also pick the page density; if you know the word count, entering it gives a more accurate result.
  2. Pick the target length. Pick one of Whole document, Summary, Standard or Split the document. These are reference lengths for estimating the time.
  3. Look at your quota. See whether this video fits the Studio (15 min) and Team (60 min) plans.
  4. If it is short, pick a way forward. If the minutes are short, shorten the video, split the document or buy an extra-minutes pack.

How it is worked out

The number of words is multiplied by 8.35 to get a number of characters. Zıpır estimates the narration at 14.9 characters a second; the number of characters is divided by that speed and the result is rounded up to a 30-second step.

That is the length of the full narration. Zıpır does not read every sentence of the document; it chooses the sentences to narrate. A real 28-page document, Law 6331, produced a video of 1 minute 13 seconds. The real length of the video is shown on the approval screen, before any of your minutes are deducted.

What do Summary, Standard, Whole document and Split the document mean?

Summary (3 to 5 min), Standard (10 to 15 min) and Whole document (at most 15 min) are reference lengths for the calculation; they are not a separate setting you choose when you upload. A single video is at most 15 minutes. You set the length of the video on the approval screen, with “Shorten the video to … minutes” if your quota is not enough. If the document is already shorter than the target, its length stays as it is.

Split the document means you cut the document into parts yourself: you upload each part as a separate file and each becomes a separate video. A single video is at most 15 minutes; if your document is longer, split it before you upload.

If the minutes are not enough

The video is not deleted; it waits. You can shorten the video to the minutes you have left, make the first parts of the document, buy an extra-minutes pack, or upgrade your plan. For the details see My minutes are not enough for this video. Pack prices and rules are under What is an extra-minutes pack?.

A PDF can have at most 300 pages. For other questions, go back to Help.

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