I worked for a summer in the text-to-speech lab at Motorola and remember banging my head on this problem---especially because something like "$2 million" or eve

I worked for a summer in the text-to-speech lab at Motorola and remember banging my head on this problem---especially because something like "$2 million" or even "$2m" has to get rewritten for the speech engine. It's like a middle-endian notation.