1. A portable word counter system, comprising: an analog low power circuit, comprising: an analog input receiver receiving input representative of human speech and transforming the input representative of human speech into a signal, one or more linear analog filters filtering the signal into one or more frequency bands, a gain amplifier stage amplifying the one or more frequency bands, an envelope detector removing frequency spikes from the amplified one or more frequency bands, and a threshold detector detecting whether or not a voltage or current of the amplified one or more frequency bands exceeds a threshold voltage or current; and; a digital microcontroller circuit, comprising: a syllable detector detecting each instance in which the threshold detector detects that the threshold voltage or current is exceeded in the one or more frequency bands as a threshold detection, wherein the digital microcontroller circuit identifies the threshold detection as a spoken syllable and determines a word count for the number of words received in the input representative of human speech.