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+<speak>123 Street Ln, Small Town, IL 12345 USA
+<break time='2s'/>1 Jenny St &amp; Number St, Tutone City, CA 86753
+<break time='2s'/>1 Piazza del Fibonacci, 12358 Pisa, Italy
+<break time='2s'/></speak>
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diff --git a/texttospeech/cloud-client/resources/example.txt b/texttospeech/cloud-client/resources/example.txt
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+123 Street Ln, Small Town, IL 12345 USA
+1 Jenny St & Number St, Tutone City, CA 86753
+1 Piazza del Fibonacci, 12358 Pisa, Italy
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diff --git a/texttospeech/cloud-client/src/main/java/com/example/texttospeech/SsmlAddresses.java b/texttospeech/cloud-client/src/main/java/com/example/texttospeech/SsmlAddresses.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2019 Google Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.example.texttospeech;
+
+// [START tts_ssml_address_imports]
+// Imports the Google Cloud client library
+import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.AudioConfig;
+import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.AudioEncoding;
+import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.SsmlVoiceGender;
+import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.SynthesisInput;
+import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.SynthesizeSpeechResponse;
+import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.TextToSpeechClient;
+import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.VoiceSelectionParams;
+import com.google.common.html.HtmlEscapers;
+import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+// [END tts_ssml_address_imports]
+
+
+/**
+ * Google Cloud TextToSpeech API sample application.
+ * Example usage: mvn package exec:java
+ *                    -Dexec.mainClass='com.example.texttospeech.SsmlAddresses
+ */
+public class SsmlAddresses {
+
+  // [START tts_ssml_address_audio]
+  /**
+   * Generates synthetic audio from a String of SSML text.
+   *
+   * Given a string of SSML text and an output file name, this function
+   * calls the Text-to-Speech API. The API returns a synthetic audio
+   * version of the text, formatted according to the SSML commands. This
+   * function saves the synthetic audio to the designated output file.
+   *
+   * @param ssmlText: String of tagged SSML text
+   * @param outfile: String name of file under which to save audio output
+   * @throws Exception on errors while closing the client
+   *
+   */
+  public static void ssmlToAudio(String ssmlText, String outFile)
+      throws Exception {
+    // Instantiates a client
+    try (TextToSpeechClient textToSpeechClient = TextToSpeechClient.create()) {
+      // Set the ssml text input to synthesize
+      SynthesisInput input = SynthesisInput.newBuilder()
+           .setSsml(ssmlText)
+           .build();
+
+      // Build the voice request, select the language code ("en-US") and
+      // the ssml voice gender ("male")
+      VoiceSelectionParams voice = VoiceSelectionParams.newBuilder()
+          .setLanguageCode("en-US")
+          .setSsmlGender(SsmlVoiceGender.MALE)
+          .build();
+
+      // Select the audio file type
+      AudioConfig audioConfig = AudioConfig.newBuilder()
+          .setAudioEncoding(AudioEncoding.MP3)
+          .build();
+
+      // Perform the text-to-speech request on the text input with the selected voice parameters and
+      // audio file type
+      SynthesizeSpeechResponse response = textToSpeechClient.synthesizeSpeech(input, voice,
+          audioConfig);
+
+      // Get the audio contents from the response
+      ByteString audioContents = response.getAudioContent();
+
+      // Write the response to the output file
+      try (OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(outFile)) {
+        out.write(audioContents.toByteArray());
+        System.out.println("Audio content written to file " + outFile);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  // [END tts_ssml_address_audio]
+
+  // [START tts_ssml_address_ssml]
+  /**
+   * Generates SSML text from plaintext.
+   *
+   * Given an input filename, this function converts the contents of the input text file
+   * into a String of tagged SSML text. This function formats the SSML String so that,
+   * when synthesized, the synthetic audio will pause for two seconds between each line
+   * of the text file. This function also handles special text characters which might
+   * interfere with SSML commands.
+   *
+   * @param inputfile: String name of plaintext file
+   * @throws IOException on files that don't exist
+   * @return a String of SSML text based on plaintext input.
+   *
+   */
+  public static String textToSsml(String inputFile)
+      throws Exception {
+
+    // Read lines of input file
+    String rawLines = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(inputFile)));
+
+    // Replace special characters with HTML Ampersand Character Codes
+    // These codes prevent the API from confusing text with SSML tags
+    // For example, '<' --> '&lt;' and '&' --> '&amp;'
+    String escapedLines = HtmlEscapers.htmlEscaper().escape(rawLines);
+
+    // Convert plaintext to SSML
+    // Tag SSML so that there is a 2 second pause between each address
+    String expandedNewline = escapedLines.replaceAll("\\n","\n<break time='2s'/>");
+    String ssml = "<speak>" + expandedNewline + "</speak>";
+
+    // Return the concatenated String of SSML
+    return ssml;
+  }
+  // [START tts_ssml_address_ssml]
+
+  // [START tts_ssml_address_test]
+  public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
+    // test example address file
+    String inputFile = "resources/example.txt";
+    String outFile = "resources/example.mp3";
+
+    String ssml = textToSsml(inputFile);
+    ssmlToAudio(ssml, outFile);
+  }
+  // [END tts_ssml_address_test]
+}
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diff --git a/texttospeech/cloud-client/src/test/java/com/example/texttospeech/SsmlAddressesIT.java b/texttospeech/cloud-client/src/test/java/com/example/texttospeech/SsmlAddressesIT.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2019 Google Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.example.texttospeech;
+
+import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
+
+import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.PrintStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
+
+/**
+ * Tests for SsmlAddresses sample.
+ */
+@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
+@SuppressWarnings("checkstyle:abbreviationaswordinname")
+public class SsmlAddressesIT {
+
+  private static String OUTPUT = "output.mp3";
+  private static String TEXT_FILE = "resources/example.txt";
+  private static String SSML_FILE = "resources/example.ssml";
+
+  private ByteArrayOutputStream bout;
+  private PrintStream out;
+  private File outputFile;
+
+  @Before
+  public void setUp() {
+    bout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+    out = new PrintStream(bout);
+    System.setOut(out);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testTextToSsml() throws Exception {
+    // Act
+    String ssml = SsmlAddresses.textToSsml(TEXT_FILE);
+    String expectedSsml = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(SSML_FILE)));
+
+    // Assert
+    assertThat(ssml).contains(expectedSsml);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSsmlToAudio() throws Exception {
+    // Act
+    String ssml = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(SSML_FILE)));
+    SsmlAddresses.ssmlToAudio(ssml, OUTPUT);
+
+    // Assert
+    outputFile = new File(OUTPUT);
+    assertThat(outputFile.isFile()).isTrue();
+    String got = bout.toString();
+    assertThat(got).contains("Audio content written to file output.mp3");
+
+    // After
+    outputFile.delete();
+  }
+}
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