I wrote this code to replace the use of equivalent code in the com.ibm.icu.text.RuleBasedNumberFormat package in the ICU4J library. While very capable, the JAR file for this library weighs in at 12.9 megs and I only needed this one feature for a text to speech project I am working on. The code here is entirely my own, but I have tested it against the UCU4J library (test code included) for English pronunciation.
Unlike the ICU4J library, which can handle many languages, this code only handles English pronunciation of cardinal and ordinal numbers.
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