Hi, Setting IbmttsUseSSML 1 in ibmtts.conf is the workaround for me. I am interested in where the string replacement is done in speechd. Please have a look to this: the pronontiation of the & sign is amp but I could not find this in the source code. HTH. Halim Halim Sahin E-Mail: halim.sahin (at) t-online.de