Additional fly in the ointment, Chicago also diverges from USPS treatment of addresses containing compass points:

Single-letter compass points accompanying a street name are normally followed by a period; two-letter ones are not. (The US Postal Service does not use periods for either)

GizmoGuy411 wrote:It is a slow process to test, as I need to drive to the location, and use my Android device to hear the TTS output.

Thanks again for doing this, Gizmo. Awesome community resource, your sandbox is.

Two things that I can confirm:
1) comma does add pause, so perhaps change your sandbox from / separators to , to make it easier?
2) the space before and after the / are critical! Recently encountered a "Blah blah Ave/ Irrelevant St" named exit and the "Ave" was pronounced "ayve", NOT expanded out to "avenue"

Does anyone have any thoughts about "one half", "three quarters", or (my personal favorite for the sheer ridiculous factor) "fifty one-hundredths"?

Then there is also the case where X<>number, like "F 1/2 Rd"

No. I think that it is actually "BJ Rd".

I am really the only one dealing with "one half" Rd, and the like?

CBenson wrote:Yep, no problems with fractions here.

Poop. Saw your post and thought someone had a solution , then looked at the permalink...

I need to be able to address, for example, "J three-eighths Rd" or "Twenty-nine and one-quarter Rd"

Gizmo,
Looking at the spreadsheet, a few questions... particularly for those of us who might want to play along and help the effort.

* If the "Date added to WME" is null, can you confirm that none of them have been added yet?
* Have all the "1" values been added and we are just waiting for the laborious process of you testing them?

Propose adding an "Editor" column, in case others want to join in, and maybe something to indicate "non-standard but editor requested"?

J

PS I've set up my little test for a few possible variations to get Colorado, my fractional desires, as well as some different "special" cases...

GizmoGuy411 wrote: So you can see with all the nulls that I have a lot to test yet.
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As far adding an "Editor" column, i'm not sure of your intended purpose

Given how much you have yet to test, perhaps other editors would be willing/able to set up test rigs as well, to share the effort? Such as mine own? So I could conceivably test some of the outstanding options on your spreadsheet and could indicate which were being tested by me...

I don't want to confound the results, but I've been thinking of setting the street names up something like this: or (different street name), at least for this particular case with trying to pick out "ee" vs. "east", The numbers and colons would serve to more easily isolate what works.
Thoughts?

Also, for "/ "(slash space) results ... I don't recall if the TTS actually said "slash", but the big kicker is that the missing space BEFORE the slash seems to break the translation engine for the previous abbreviation into the proper word.