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abbreviation of a state name. The numbers in a zip code are always readindividually. For example:Input textOutput text94025 ninety four thousand and twenty fiveCA 94025Menlo Park, CA 94025Florham Park, NJ07932-0971Menlo Park, 94025California 94025california nine four zero two fivemenlo park california nine four zero two fiveflorham park new jerseyzero seven nine three two zero nine seven onemenlo park ninety four thousand and twenty fivecalifornia ninety four thousand and twenty fiveNote: Vocalizer handles Canadian postal codes and UK post codes as describedin “Combining letters and numbers” on page 80.DatesVocalizer recognizes dates specified in both text (“December 9, 1997”) and digit(“12/9/1997”) formats, and reads them accordingly. The digit format can bedelimited with forward slashes (“/”), commas(“,”), periods (“.”), or hyphens(“-”).Note: If you are using North American English voice packs, dates are parsedusing the American date format, mm/dd/yyyy. If you are using either U.K. orAustralian/New Zealand English voice packs, dates are parsed using thedd/mm/yyyy format.Vocalizer recognizes month abbreviations as well as the full month name.Certain month names and month abbreviations—such as Jan, Mar, May, andJune—are treated specially because they are also words. Based on the context ofthe overall phrase, these might be read as dates or read literally:Input text Output: North American format Output: U.K. and Australian/NewZealand formatFeb 5 february five february fiveJan 1, 2000 january one two thousand january one two thousandFebruary 5, 1997 february five nineteen ninety seven february five nineteen ninety seven84Nuance Vocalizer 3.0Developer’s Guide