Hark free tools

Free meeting tools

Small, free calculators for the questions that come up around meetings, talks and transcripts. They run in your browser, need no sign-up, and every result has its own link, so you can send a filled-in answer to a colleague or drop it into a blog post.

The meeting cost calculator adds up what a meeting really costs in salaries: list who attends, how long it runs and how often it repeats, and see the cost per minute, per meeting and per year. The speaking rate calculator turns a word count into speaking time (and minutes into words) at slow, average or fast speaking rates, and estimates how long it takes to transcribe an hour of audio by hand compared with automatic transcription.

Each tool explains how it works and links its sources. Bloggers and teams can embed either calculator on their own site with a short copy-and-paste code.