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	Test Assertion: 173
	@author an buyle
	@version 1.1, 07/07/2007
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<conf:test xmlns:conf="http://www.w3.org/2002/ssml-conformance">
   
    <conf:instruction>
        Test of markers at word boundaries.
        The reference and the test should sound exactly the same.
    </conf:instruction>
    
    <conf:reference_markup>
        <speak version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xml:lang="en-US">    
            This is a sentence.
        </speak>
    </conf:reference_markup>
    
    <conf:test_markup>
        <speak version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis" xml:lang="en-US">    
            <mark name="word_1"/>This <mark name="word_2"/>is <mark name="word_3"/>a <mark name="word_4"/>sentence.
        </speak>
    </conf:test_markup>
</conf:test>
        

