Converting Numbers to Text

Greetings all!

I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to convert a string of digits into
its various text counterparts as they could be spoken?

i.e. the input would be > 123 Main Street

The Output would be:

one two three Main Street
one twenty three Main Street
one hundred twenty three Main Street
one hundred and twenty three Main Street

Any ideas of a way to accomplish this? ...or a 3rd party tool that can do
the same?

Regards,


Max...

Re: Converting Numbers to Text

On 2006-03-14, MRX wrote:
> Greetings all!
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to convert a string of digits into
> its various text counterparts as they could be spoken?
>
> i.e. the input would be > 123 Main Street
>
> The Output would be:
>
> one two three Main Street
> one twenty three Main Street
> one hundred twenty three Main Street
> one hundred and twenty three Main Street
>
> Any ideas of a way to accomplish this? ...or a 3rd party tool that can do
> the same?

Checkout Number::Spell, usage looks like:
use Number::Spell
my $string = spell_number(123);

It only supports American and European formatting which according to the
docs affects numbers >= one billion.
number : 20000000000 (2 * 10^11)
American format : twenty billion
European format : twenty thousand million

If you are interested in numbers formated for a different country,
Lingua::Num2Word.

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Re: Converting Numbers to Text

Michael Greb wrote:
> Checkout Number::Spell, usage looks like:
> use Number::Spell
> my $string = spell_number(123);

> It only supports American and European formatting which according to the
> docs affects numbers >= one billion.
> number : 20000000000 (2 * 10^11)
> American format : twenty billion
> European format : twenty thousand million

It might do American but it doesn't do English. Here, 123 is spoken as
"one hundred and twenty three". The 'eu' format flag doesn't affect
this, either.

Chris

Re: Converting Numbers to Text

On 2006-03-14, Chris Davies wrote:
> Michael Greb wrote:
>> Checkout Number::Spell, usage looks like:
>> use Number::Spell
>> my $string = spell_number(123);
>
>> It only supports American and European formatting which according to the
>> docs affects numbers >= one billion.
>> number : 20000000000 (2 * 10^11)
>> American format : twenty billion
>> European format : twenty thousand million
>
> It might do American but it doesn't do English. Here, 123 is spoken as
> "one hundred and twenty three". The 'eu' format flag doesn't affect
> this, either.

123 eq 'one hundred and twenty three' in .us as well. What was the
output from this module, "one two three"? I've never used it.

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Re: Converting Numbers to Text

Michael Greb wrote:
> use Number::Spell
> my $string = spell_number(123);

On 2006-03-14, Chris Davies wrote:
> It might do American but it doesn't do English. Here, 123 is spoken as
> "one hundred and twenty three". The 'eu' format flag doesn't affect
> this, either.

Michael Greb wrote:
> 123 eq 'one hundred and twenty three' in .us as well. What was the
> output from this module, "one two three"? I've never used it.

The output from 123 is "one hundred twenty three", which is exactly how
I would have expected American colleagues to say the number. (I've never
heard the "and" from an American speaking such phrases.) I'm intruiged to
see you say that you'd have also expected "one hundred and twenty three".

Chris

Re: Converting Numbers to Text

"Chris Davies" wrote in message
news:kn3le3-h0f.ln1@news.roaima.co.uk...
> Michael Greb wrote:
>> use Number::Spell
>> my $string = spell_number(123);
>
> On 2006-03-14, Chris Davies wrote:
>> It might do American but it doesn't do English. Here, 123 is spoken as
>> "one hundred and twenty three". The 'eu' format flag doesn't affect
>> this, either.
>
> Michael Greb wrote:
>> 123 eq 'one hundred and twenty three' in .us as well. What was the
>> output from this module, "one two three"? I've never used it.
>
> The output from 123 is "one hundred twenty three", which is exactly how
> I would have expected American colleagues to say the number. (I've never
> heard the "and" from an American speaking such phrases.) I'm intruiged to
> see you say that you'd have also expected "one hundred and twenty three".
>

Most people I know would say "one twenty three" or "a hundred and twenty
three", but then I am Canadian... : )

Matt

Re: Converting Numbers to Text

MRX wrote:
> Greetings all!
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to convert a string of digits into
> its various text counterparts as they could be spoken?
>

I saw a website a while ago which mentioned a competition to write a program
to do just that. There were postings of program listings in many different
programming languages. I tested some of the programs here. They worked just
fine.

I'm searching the net now to see if I can find that website again.

I'll post the url, if I find it.

Regards,

Mark.

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