Comment 1 by jteh on 2010-03-10 14:26
First impression (without actually checking) is that this is caused by a builtin speech dictionary rule which is intended to ensure that preceding 0s are spoken. It does this by inserting a space.

Comment 2 by Bernd on 2011-09-08 09:27
hmm, I think it is good how it is. If you don't to want hearing 0 before the date you could add an entry to your dictionarry.

Comment 3 by heikofolkerts on 2013-07-30 18:23
It seems also to depend on the sppech engine used.

While espeak reads the dates as described the SAPI 5 voice Steffi reads all examples correctly and thereby dropping the zeros. So I also agree that it is more a kind of wether one wants the leading zeors to be spoken than a general good and bad reading.

@bdorer: Might you be able to give a status update on this? Is it still occurring? As far as I understand from #592 (comment) , you don't consider it to be a bug

@bdorer Could you please respond to #592 (comment)?

Unfortunately, we have not heard from @bdorer in over a year. I am going to close this issue, unless it is still occurring. This probably needs a fix in ESpeak, if it still is.