Speak stops on first Hyphen with IntegerName

Question

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.

Answer 1

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"], "‐" :> " "]