diff --git a/.github/workflows/push.yml b/.github/workflows/push.yml
index f6e8358865..1df672eaad 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/push.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/push.yml
@@ -68,6 +68,26 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         python -m unittest test.chairs
 
+  empty-speech:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+         python-version: [3.8]
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install .
+        pip install PyPDF2
+    - name: Test there are no empty u or seg elements
+      run: |
+        python -m unittest test.empty-speech
+
   mp:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
diff --git a/test/empty-speech.py b/test/empty-speech.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..193b6c04d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/empty-speech.py
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+Test there are no empty speeches.
+"""
+from .pytestconfig import fetch_config
+from datetime import datetime
+from lxml import etree
+from pyriksdagen.utils import (
+    parse_protocol,
+    protocol_iterators,
+)
+from tqdm import tqdm
+import pandas as pd
+import unittest
+import warnings
+
+
+
+
+class EmptyElement(Warning):
+
+    def __init__(self, m):
+        self.message = m
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.message
+
+
+
+
+class Test(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_no_empty_speech(self):
+        """
+        Test protocol has no empty `u` or `seg` elements
+        """
+        rows = []
+        protocols = sorted(list(protocol_iterators("corpus/protocols/",
+                                                   start=1867,
+                                                   end=2022)))
+        for p in tqdm(protocols, total=len(protocols)):
+            root, ns = parse_protocol(p, get_ns=True)
+            for elem in root.iter(f'{ns["tei_ns"]}u'):
+                if len(elem) == 0:
+                    if f'{ns["xml_ns"]}id' in elem.attrib:
+                        u_id = elem.attrib[f'{ns["xml_ns"]}id']
+                        rows.append([p, "u", u_id])
+                        warnings.warn(f"Empty u-elem: {p}, {u_id}", EmptyElement)
+                else:
+                    for seg in elem:
+                        if not seg.text or seg.text.strip() == '':
+                            if f'{ns["xml_ns"]}id' in seg.attrib:
+                                seg_id = seg.attrib[f'{ns["xml_ns"]}id']
+                                rows.append([p, "seg", seg_id])
+                                warnings.warn(f"Empty seg-elem: {p}, {seg_id}", EmptyElement)
+        if len(rows) > 0:
+            config = fetch_config("empty-speech")
+            if config and config["write_empty_speeches"]:
+                now = datetime.now().strftime('%Y%m%d-%H%M%S')
+                cols = ["protocol", "elem", "elem_id"]
+                df = pd.DataFrame(rows, columns=cols)
+                df.to_csv(
+                    f"{config['test_out_path']}empty-speech_{now}.csv",
+                    sep=';',
+                    index=False)
+
+        self.assertEqual(len(rows), 0)
+
+
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()
diff --git a/test/pytestconfig.py b/test/pytestconfig.py
index 34c057b9e2..dd819af52a 100644
--- a/test/pytestconfig.py
+++ b/test/pytestconfig.py
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ def fetch_config(test):
     try:
         with open("test/_test_config/test.json", 'r') as j:
             d = json.load(j)
+            config = d[test]
+            config['test_out_path'] = d['test_out_path']
         return d[test]
     except:
         return None