Because thats invalid XML :P

Try something like this:

<action application="speak"><![CDATA[cepstral|david|<prosody volume=13>Thank you for holding</prosody>]]></application>

/b


On Dec 4, 2011, at 6:33 AM, Saeed Ahmed wrote:

Trying to do the same with no success.

have you got it working?

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Madovsky <infos@madovsky.org> wrote:

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I'm trying the SSML example from mod_cepstral wiki

<action application="speak" data="cepstral|david|<prosody volume=13>Thank
you for holding</prosody>"/>

but the voice doesn't say the sentence but says something like "slash
blablabla...".