You don't even need a native speaker to confirm it. It is definitely not spoken as slash. The most probable situation you will hear it pronunced as slash is in URLs, e.g. www.englishforums.com/English is pronounced as www dot englishforums dot com slash English.
Not all software are so dumb. Opera has a plug-in that can read out the English text on a webpage. It says, ". . . in a vacuum in -PAUSE- one divided by two hundred ninety-nine million, seven hundred ninety-two thousand, four hundred fifty-eight -PAUSE- of a second". The voice function of Opera is the most intelligent I've ever seen and the pronunciation is much better than other machine-like voice synthesizers. Give it a try.