English (US, UK)

Language-specific rules apply to:

Dates

Hours and minutes

Street, avenue, and drive

Numbered street names; for example, 29 42 Street becomes twenty-nine forty-second street

Phone numbers are spoken as digits, with appropriate pauses

Dr. becomes doctor

St. becomes saint

Two-letter state names are pronounced in full; for example MA 01749 becomes Massachusetts zero one seven four nine.

Postal zip codes within a mail address are spoken one digit at a time

URL addresses are spoken one character at a time

File names are spoken one character at a time

In compound words, prefixes may be broken apart from the second word

Days of the week

Directions on the compass are spoken in full; for example 30 W becomes thirty west

Roman numerals following a name are spoken as ordinal numbers; for example John Doe III becomes John Doe the third

Credit card numbers are spoken appropriately, for example, 6011 4134 3621 4172 becomes six zero one one, four one three four, three six two one, four one seven two.

In a word written with mixed uppercase and lowercase letters, each uppercase letter begins a new word; for example, TextToSpeech becomes text to speech

Combinations of numbers and letters are broken into numbers and individual letters; for example two34five becomes T W O thirty-four F I V E; XF302QB becomes XF three hundred and two QB.