sentence in quotes fix

resources/app/python/xvapitch/text/text_preprocessing.py

@@ -418,7 +418,19 @@ class TextPreprocessor():
 
 
     def clean_special_chars(self, text):
-        return text.replace("*","")
+        # quotemarks " can create problems for dict_replace
+        # remove the ones at start and end of text
+        if text.strip()[0]:\
+            text = text.replace("\"", "", 1)
+        if text.strip()[-1]:\
+            text = text[::-1].replace("\"", "", 1)[::-1]
+        # replace all others with a colon
+        text = text.replace("\"", ":")
+
+        # remove asterisks
+        text.replace("*","")
+
+        return text
 
     def text_to_phonemes (self, text):
         text = self.clean_special_chars(text)