Hit the following while testing with a danish SRT file.

Setting the opening encoding mode to utf-8-sig fixed the issue for me

with open(srtFile, 'r', encoding='utf-8-sig') as f:
    lines = f.readlines()

Thank you for your work on this project. I have an SRT audio file and an SSML Audio file from Amazon Polly.

For some reason which I cannot figure out, the SSML audio files created by Amazon Polly are much longer and out of sync with original SRT timestamps.

Here is a view of the audio files in Resolve showing different timestamps and SSML being longer. I used the example 23 second SRT listed in this project.

1
00:00:00,140 --> 00:00:05,050
This is an example of a subtitle file with a bunch of random words I've added with various timestamps.

2
00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:13,290
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim

3
00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:14,250
veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

4
00:00:14,340 --> 00:00:19,930
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla.

5
00:00:20,130 --> 00:00:23,419
Now some examples of some escaped characters such as & and ' and " and < and > just to name a few

This is an example of a subtitle file with a bunch of random words I've added with various timestamps.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim
veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla.
Now some examples of some escaped characters such as & and ' and " and < and > just to name a few

I noticed that the current version of this script doesn't support multi-line subtitles like the following.

1
00:00:23,650 --> 00:00:27,862
FORLAD BRONX OG BLIV
SKREVET OP TIL ET NYT HUS

2
00:00:27,946 --> 00:00:31,157
I DET FORTRYLLENDE
NEW MEXICO

I knocked together a PoC of how you could fix this if you want to keep the current "enumerate each subtitle line" concept, another option would be just to go back and append the text in subsDict until we hit line 97.

for lineNum, line in enumerate(lines):
    line = line.strip()
    # If line has no text
    lineWithSubtitleText = ""
    if line.isdigit() and subtitleTimeLineRegex.match(lines[lineNum + 1]):
        lineWithTimestamps = lines[lineNum + 1].strip()
        
        # We may have a multi-line sentence, read each of the lines until we hit the next subtitle line.
        for count, sublineItem in enumerate(lines):
            if(count <= lineNum+1):
                continue
            subline = sublineItem.strip()
            if (subline.isdigit() and subtitleTimeLineRegex.match(lines[count + 1])) or subline == "":
                break
            else:
                lineWithSubtitleText += f"{subline}\n"

Here's what it looks like with the code above.

So I'm trying to get SRT to SSML working for another TTS service (https://blakify.com/).

I (mostly) have SRT-To-SSML working with my own SRT file... yet as a baseline, I can't get the example SRT from README.md to even work. See the example below.

*note, I've modified the script to use sys.argv as arguments

I also noticed in both my own SRT file and by commenting out lines 102-109... that the SSML generated won't include elements.

I'd appreciate any guidance or help, thanks!