diff --git a/texttospeech/resources/example.ssml b/texttospeech/resources/example.ssml
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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>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/texttospeech/resources/example.txt b/texttospeech/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
diff --git a/texttospeech/resources/expected_example.mp3 b/texttospeech/resources/expected_example.mp3
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diff --git a/texttospeech/ssmlAddresses.js b/texttospeech/ssmlAddresses.js
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+/**
+ * Copyright 2019 Google LLC
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+function main(
+  inFile = 'resources/example.txt',
+  outFile = 'resources/example.mp3'
+) {
+  // [START tts_ssml_address_test]
+  /**
+   * TODO (developer): Uncomment these variables before running the sample
+   *
+   */
+  // inFile = 'resources/example.txt',
+  // outFile = 'resources/example.mp3'
+  // [START tts_ssml_address_imports]
+  // Imports the Google Cloud client library
+  const textToSpeech = require('@google-cloud/text-to-speech');
+
+  // Import other required libraries
+  const fs = require('fs');
+  //const escape = require('escape-html');
+  const util = require('util');
+  // [END tts_ssml_address_imports]
+
+  // [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.
+   *
+   * ARGS
+   * ssmlText: String of tagged SSML text
+   * outfile: String name of file under which to save audio output
+   * RETURNS
+   * nothing
+   *
+   */
+  async function ssmlToAudio(ssmlText, outFile) {
+    // Creates a client
+    const client = new textToSpeech.TextToSpeechClient();
+
+    // Constructs the request
+    const request = {
+      // Select the text to synthesize
+      input: {ssml: ssmlText},
+      // Select the language and SSML Voice Gender (optional)
+      voice: {languageCode: 'en-US', ssmlGender: 'MALE'},
+      // Select the type of audio encoding
+      audioConfig: {audioEncoding: 'MP3'},
+    };
+
+    // Performs the Text-to-Speech request
+    const [response] = await client.synthesizeSpeech(request);
+    // Write the binary audio content to a local file
+    const writeFile = util.promisify(fs.writeFile);
+    await writeFile(outFile, response.audioContent, 'binary');
+    console.log('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.
+   *
+   * ARGS
+   * inputfile: String name of plaintext file
+   * RETURNS
+   * a String of SSML text based on plaintext input
+   *
+   */
+  function textToSsml(inputFile) {
+    let rawLines = '';
+    // Read input file
+    try {
+      rawLines = fs.readFileSync(inputFile, 'utf8');
+    } catch (e) {
+      console.log('Error:', e.stack);
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // Replace special characters with HTML Ampersand Character Codes
+    // These codes prevent the API from confusing text with SSML tags
+    // For example, '<' --> '&lt;' and '&' --> '&amp;'
+    let escapedLines = rawLines;
+    escapedLines = escapedLines.replace(/&/g, '&amp;');
+    escapedLines = escapedLines.replace(/"/g, '&quot;');
+    escapedLines = escapedLines.replace(/</g, '&lt;');
+    escapedLines = escapedLines.replace(/>/g, '&gt;');
+
+    // Convert plaintext to SSML
+    // Tag SSML so that there is a 2 second pause between each address
+    const expandedNewline = escapedLines.replace(/\n/g, '\n<break time="2s"/>');
+    const ssml = '<speak>' + expandedNewline + '</speak>';
+
+    // Return the concatenated String of SSML
+    return ssml;
+  }
+  // [END tts_ssml_address_ssml]
+  const ssml = textToSsml(inFile);
+  ssmlToAudio(ssml, outFile);
+  // [END tts_ssml_address_test]
+}
+
+main(...process.argv.slice(2));
diff --git a/texttospeech/test/ssmlAddresses.test.js b/texttospeech/test/ssmlAddresses.test.js
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+/**
+ * Copyright 2019 Google LLC
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+'use strict';
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const {assert} = require('chai');
+const cp = require('child_process');
+
+const execSync = cmd => cp.execSync(cmd, {encoding: 'utf-8'});
+
+const cmd = 'node ssmlAddresses.js';
+const outputFile = 'resources/example.mp3';
+
+describe('ssmlAddresses', () => {
+  // delete 'resources/example.mp3' file if it already exists
+  before(function() {
+    try {
+      fs.unlinkSync(outputFile);
+    } catch (e) {
+      // don't throw an exception
+    }
+  });
+
+  // delete 'resources/example.mp3' file
+  after(function() {
+    fs.unlinkSync(outputFile);
+    assert.strictEqual(fs.existsSync(outputFile), false);
+  });
+
+  it('synthesize speech to local mp3 file', async () => {
+    assert.strictEqual(fs.existsSync(outputFile), false);
+    const stdout = execSync(`${cmd}`);
+    assert.match(
+      stdout,
+      /Audio content written to file resources\/example.mp3/
+    );
+    assert.strictEqual(fs.existsSync(outputFile), true);
+  });
+});