Speech Plugin number handling

[jskinner]

I'm thinking of changing how the Speech plugin (http://james.istop.com/PopTray/MicrosoftSpeech/) handles emails where the from address contains numbers.

Currently the plugin just says the number. For example if the email is from james68@somewhere.org, it says "James sixty-eight"

This works well in most cases except when you get long number or only a number only. For example Vonage sends emails with the from field set to your phone number. In this case the plugin trys to speak this as a number "Six hundred and thirteen million, five hundred ninty-six ..." This is not so good.

I'm trying to come up with an good algorithm to deal with this. So far what I have done is that if the from field contains _only_ digits than I say the digits one at a time rather than all together as a number. (For example 6-1-3-...) Does that sound like a good approach? Any other suggestions?

thanks, -james

[Renier]

Even james123456 you probably don't want to hear the actual big number. Maybe if there is more than a certain number of numbers in the word?

[jskinner]

Even james123456 you probably don't want to hear the actual big number. Maybe if there is more than a certain number of numbers in the word?

Yes I think your idea is a better approach. I wonder what the right number of digits is? I'm thinking if its more than two digits?

[Renier]

Sounds right. 2 or 3.