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Thank you for the fast action! I’m looking forward to the update. Could you give an indication of when it may be available?

Sounds great, I’ll look out for the update. Thanks for your quick attention!

Works for me! I do notice a small bug in post preview mode, where the reading time shows longer estimates within the Gutenberg post editor. But the published post shows the correct time. Thanks for your quick attention!

I hadn’t considered that! The articles on my site have accented characters (for Asian languages) as well. Good theory for the dev team to check.

I believe I have the same issue. The Reading Time meta over-calculates the estimate as *double to triple* the average reading time in reality.

For example: On my site (https://www.mychinaroots.com/blog/), you can see the article “8 things you didn’t know about your Chinese surname” has a 14 min reading estimate, when really, as a 1200 word article, it’s closer to a 5 min read. Another article, “Welcome to Traceable” shows a 5 min read time, when as a 500 word article, it’s closer to a 2 min read. (I am basing my time approximations on the Hemingway website)

Can you please update the calculation for the Reading Time meta to be more accurate? Thanks!