Addresses, URLs, and emails

How Rime automatically expands street addresses, URLs, and email addresses into spoken form.

Rime expands addresses, URLs, and email addresses into their spoken form automatically. Schemes, www. prefixes, paths, hyphens in domains, and common TLDs are all handled.

For a tour of text normalization across all categories, see Text normalization. For specific patterns Rime doesn’t expand cleanly, see Pre-normalizing text.

Addresses

Rime typically pronounces state name abbreviations correctly in the context of an address, but writing out the full state name (e.g., “Massachusetts” instead of “MA”) gives more consistent results. Common street abbreviations like Rd. and St. are pronounced correctly.

Format	Example	Reads as
Full street + state name	529 Main Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02129	five twenty-nine main street, boston, massachusetts, zero two one two nine
Abbreviated street + abbreviated state	529 Main St., Boston, MA 02129	five twenty-nine main street, boston, massachusetts, zero two one two nine
Mixed	529 Main St, Boston, MA 02129	five twenty-nine main street, boston, massachusetts, zero two one two nine

URLs

Schemes, www. prefixes, paths, and hyphens in domains are handled. Common TLDs (.com, .org, .io, .ai, etc.) are read letter-by-letter.

Format	Example	Reads as
Bare www. URL	www.example.com	double-u double-u double-u dot example dot com
HTTPS URL	https://app.rime.ai	h t t p s colon slash slash app dot rime dot a i
URL with path	www.shop.com/archive	www dot shop dot com slash archive
URL with hyphenated domain	https://worldprime.io/about	HTTPS world prime dot i o slash about

Emails

Format	Example	Reads as
Standard email	[e-mail]	name at example dot com
Email with digits	[e-mail]	cloud seven nine nine at i cloud dot com

Emails are handled by Rime’s custom segmentation model. It breaks up compound words and handles punctuation and most top-level domains. If you hear something off, let us know.

Known gaps

Internationalized domain names (non-ASCII characters in URLs) aren’t supported. For the full list of normalization gaps and how to handle them, see Pre-normalizing text.

Related

• Numbers, currency, and measurements for phone numbers and other numeric formats
• Spell function for forced letter-by-letter reading of unusual email addresses or vanity URLs