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.