Saying a number

The app expects the number as it is said, in the device language. From one thousand on, both readings are accepted: MCMXLV is “nineteen forty-five” — the way a year is read, and the way most people read it — or “one thousand nine hundred (and) forty-five”.

• You may hesitate: on a large number, the verdict waits for the end of the utterance, a started answer is not a mistake.
• Small numbers are said plainly: XIV, “fourteen”.
• The British “and” is optional: CI is “one hundred one” or “one hundred and one”.
• The year reading works where people actually use it: MC is “eleven hundred”, MMXXIV “twenty twenty-four”.

Recognition runs entirely on the device, with no connection. No speech is transmitted, no recording is kept.