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IntegerName returns the text of an integer. However, when Speak is applied to the result it stops at the fist hyphen.

For example

IntegerName[12345, "Words"]
"twelve thousand, three hundred forty-five"

But

Speak@IntegerName[12345, "Words"]

Only reads "twelve thousand, three hundred forty"

Similarly for

IntegerName[123456, "Words"]
"one hundred twenty-three thousand, four hundred fifty-six"

but

Speak@IntegerName[123456, "Words"]

Only reads "one hundred twenty"

Can anyone else confirm this behaviour? Win 8.1 Pro with Mma 11.0.1

I am attempting to use Mma to introduce primary school students computational thinking.

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    $\begingroup$ The problem seems to be the \hyphen in the output of IntegerName. If you replace this with a dash - it will read OK. $\endgroup$
    – bill s
    Nov 28, 2016 at 1:49

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I can confirm the problem on my system.

$Version

(*  "11.0.1 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (September 21, 2016)"  *)

As a workaround use StringReplace to replace the hyphen

IntegerName[12345, "Words"] // FullForm

(*  "twelve thousand, three hundred forty\[Hyphen]five"  *)

Speak@StringReplace[IntegerName[12345, "Words"], "‐" :> " "]

Speak@StringReplace[IntegerName[123456, "Words"], "‐" :> " "]
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