Python Estimate Reading Time by Word Amounts – Machine Learning Tutorial

One of important functionality is to estimate reading time by word amounts in wordpress, in this tutorial, we will introduce how to estimate it. You can learn and do step by step.

Relation between word numbers  and reding senconds.

Here is a relation table.

To estimate the reading time, we can use excel. Then we can get the estimate formula is:

y = 0.4615x

where x is word number, y is reading time.

as to minute, it will be

y = (0.4615/60)x

As to python, we can define a functionto calculate.

def estimateReadingtime(words_number):
    reading = (0.4615/60) * words_number
    return reading

Then we can estimate reading time.

words_number = 1230
reading_time = estimateReadingtime(words_number)
reading_time = round(reading_time,1)
print(str(reading_time) + " minutes")

Outpunt: 9.5 minutes