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Asked: 2026-06-09T05:25:13+00:00

Thanks to this post (referenced in this question) regarding the specification of phonetics, I’m

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Thanks to this post (referenced in this question) regarding the specification of phonetics, I’m able to use XSAMPA in the TTS engine. However, how am I to specify the Primary Stress character (double-quote, i.e. “) in the XML?

Sending XML like the following will end up not speaking anything, presumably because of the second (premature) occurrence of the double-quote character when specifying the ph= value:

"<speak xml:lang=\"en-US\"> <phoneme alphabet=\"xsampa\" ph=\"\"sE.v@n.ti \"wVn\"/>.</speak>"

Am I to just forget about the primary stress character because of the way the XML is specified, or is there a workaround?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Why don’t you try &quot; as specified here, instead of an intermediate \"?

    So you would have:

    "<speak xml:lang=\"en-US\"> <phoneme alphabet=\"xsampa\" ph=\"&quot;sE.v@n.ti &quot;wVn\"/>.</speak>"
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