How to add hypens without adding space around them?

If I say "Alice hyphen tale," I get "Alice - tail" or "Alice - tell."

How do I get "Alice-tale" with the correct "tale" but far more importantly the correct use of a hyphen, which does not include spaces??

Alice-tale vs Alice - tale

Good point, we will fix it in the next release. We will add support for hypens, endash and emdash.