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articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/speech-ssml-phonetic-sets.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Phonetic alphabets are used with the [Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)](s
 
 ## Speech service phonetic alphabet
 
-For some locales, the Speech service defines its own phonetic alphabets that typically map to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" target="_blank">International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)</a>. The 7 locales that support `sapi` are: `en-US`, `fr-FR`, `de-DE`, `es-ES`, `ja-JP`, `zh-CN`, and `zh-TW`.
+For some locales, the Speech service defines its own phonetic alphabets that typically map to the [International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet). The 7 locales that support `sapi` are: `en-US`, `fr-FR`, `de-DE`, `es-ES`, `ja-JP`, `zh-CN`, and `zh-TW`.
 
 You set `sapi` or `ipa` as the `alphabet` in [SSML](speech-synthesis-markup.md#use-phonemes-to-improve-pronunciation). 
 
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ The Speech service phone set puts stress after the vowel of the stressed syllabl
 | ^      | `ʔ`   | beachtlich     /b ax - ^ a 1 x t - l ih c/ |
 
 > [!NOTE]
-> We need to add a [gs\] phone between two distinct vowels, except the two vowels are a genuine diphthong. This oral consonant is a glottal stop, for more information, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop" target="_blank">glottal stop <span class="docon docon-navigate-external x-hidden-focus"></a></a>.
+> We need to add a [gs\] phone between two distinct vowels, except the two vowels are a genuine diphthong. This oral consonant is a glottal stop, for more information, see [glottal stop](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop).
 
 ### [es-ES](#tab/es-ES)
 
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ The Speech service phone set puts stress after the vowel of the stressed syllabl
 
 ### [zh-CN](#tab/zh-CN)
 
-The Speech service phone set for `zh-CN` is based on the native phone <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin" target="_blank">Pinyin </a> set.
+The Speech service phone set for `zh-CN` is based on the native phone [Pinyin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin).
 
 #### Tone
 
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ The Speech service phone set for `zh-CN` is based on the native phone <a href="h
 
 ### [zh-TW](#tab/zh-TW)
 
-The Speech service phone set for `zh-TW` is based on the native phone <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo" target="_blank">Bopomofo </a> set.
+The Speech service phone set for `zh-TW` is based on the native phone [Bopomofo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo).
 
 #### Tone
 
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ The Speech service phone set for `zh-TW` is based on the native phone <a href="h
 
 ### [ja-JP](#tab/ja-JP)
 
-The Speech service phone set for `ja-JP` is based on the native phone <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana" target="_blank">Kana </a> set.
+The Speech service phone set for `ja-JP` is based on the native phone [Kana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana) set.
 
 #### Stress
 
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ The Speech service phone set for `ja-JP` is based on the native phone <a href="h
 
 ## International Phonetic Alphabet
 
-For the locales below, the Speech service uses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" target="_blank">International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)</a>.
+For the locales below, the Speech service uses the [International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet).
 
 You set `ipa` as the `alphabet` in [SSML](speech-synthesis-markup.md#use-phonemes-to-improve-pronunciation). 
 

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/speech-synthesis-markup.md

@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ Phonetic alphabets are composed of phones, which are made up of letters, numbers
 
 | Attribute | Description | Required / Optional |
 |-----------|-------------|---------------------|
-| `alphabet` | Specifies the phonetic alphabet to use when synthesizing the pronunciation of the string in the `ph` attribute. The string specifying the alphabet must be specified in lowercase letters. The following are the possible alphabets that you can specify.<ul><li>`ipa` &ndash; [International Phonetic Alphabet](speech-ssml-phonetic-sets.md#speech-service-phonetic-alphabet)</li><li>`sapi` &ndash; [Speech service phonetic alphabet](speech-ssml-phonetic-sets.md#speech-service-phonetic-alphabet)</li><li>`ups` &ndash;<a href="https://documentation.help/Microsoft-Speech-Platform-SDK-11/17509a49-cae7-41f5-b61d-07beaae872ea.htm" target="_blank"> Universal Phone Set</a></li></ul><br>The alphabet applies only to the `phoneme` in the element.| Optional |
+| `alphabet` | Specifies the phonetic alphabet to use when synthesizing the pronunciation of the string in the `ph` attribute. The string specifying the alphabet must be specified in lowercase letters. The following are the possible alphabets that you can specify.<ul><li>`ipa` &ndash; [International Phonetic Alphabet](speech-ssml-phonetic-sets.md#speech-service-phonetic-alphabet)</li><li>`sapi` &ndash; [Speech service phonetic alphabet](speech-ssml-phonetic-sets.md#speech-service-phonetic-alphabet)</li><li>`ups` &ndash; [Universal Phone Set](https://documentation.help/Microsoft-Speech-Platform-SDK-11/17509a49-cae7-41f5-b61d-07beaae872ea.htm)</li></ul><br>The alphabet applies only to the `phoneme` in the element.| Optional |
 | `ph` | A string containing phones that specify the pronunciation of the word in the `phoneme` element. If the specified string contains unrecognized phones, the Text-to-Speech (TTS) service rejects the entire SSML document and produces none of the speech output specified in the document. | Required if using phonemes. |
 
 **Examples**
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ To define how multiple entities are read, you can create a custom lexicon, which
 </lexicon>
 ```
 
-The `lexicon` element contains at least one `lexeme` element. Each `lexeme` element contains at least one `grapheme` element and one or more `grapheme`, `alias`, and `phoneme` elements. The `grapheme` element contains text describing the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-lexicon/#term-Orthography" target="_blank">orthography </a>. The `alias` elements are used to indicate the pronunciation of an acronym or an abbreviated term. The `phoneme` element provides text describing how the `lexeme` is pronounced. When `alias` and `phoneme` element are provided with the same `grapheme` element, `alias` has higher priority.
+The `lexicon` element contains at least one `lexeme` element. Each `lexeme` element contains at least one `grapheme` element and one or more `grapheme`, `alias`, and `phoneme` elements. The `grapheme` element contains text describing the [orthography](https://www.w3.org/TR/pronunciation-lexicon/#term-Orthography). The `alias` elements are used to indicate the pronunciation of an acronym or an abbreviated term. The `phoneme` element provides text describing how the `lexeme` is pronounced. When `alias` and `phoneme` element are provided with the same `grapheme` element, `alias` has higher priority.
 
 > [!IMPORTANT]
 > The `lexeme` element is case sensitive in custom lexicon. For example, if you only provide a phoneme for `lexeme` 'Hello', it will not work for `lexeme` 'hello'.
@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ You can subscribe to the `BookmarkReached` event in Speech SDK to get the bookma
 
 # [C#](#tab/csharp)
 
-For more information, see <a href="/dotnet/api/microsoft.cognitiveservices.speech.speechsynthesizer.bookmarkreached" target="_blank"> `BookmarkReached` </a>.
+For more information, see [`BookmarkReached`](/dotnet/api/microsoft.cognitiveservices.speech.speechsynthesizer.bookmarkreached).
 
 ```csharp
 synthesizer.BookmarkReached += (s, e) =>
@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ Bookmark reached. Audio offset: 1462.5ms, bookmark text: flower_2.
 
 # [C++](#tab/cpp)
 
-For more information, see <a href="/cpp/cognitive-services/speech/speechsynthesizer#bookmarkreached" target="_blank"> `BookmarkReached` </a>.
+For more information, see [`BookmarkReached`](/cpp/cognitive-services/speech/speechsynthesizer#bookmarkreached).
 
 ```cpp
 synthesizer->BookmarkReached += [](const SpeechSynthesisBookmarkEventArgs& e)
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ Bookmark reached. Audio offset: 1462.5ms, bookmark text: flower_2.
 
 # [Java](#tab/java)
 
-For more information, see <a href="/java/api/com.microsoft.cognitiveservices.speech.speechsynthesizer.bookmarkReached#com_microsoft_cognitiveservices_speech_SpeechSynthesizer_BookmarkReached" target="_blank"> `BookmarkReached` </a>.
+For more information, see [`BookmarkReached`](/java/api/com.microsoft.cognitiveservices.speech.speechsynthesizer.bookmarkReached#com_microsoft_cognitiveservices_speech_SpeechSynthesizer_BookmarkReached).
 
 ```java
 synthesizer.BookmarkReached.addEventListener((o, e) -> {
@@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ Bookmark reached. Audio offset: 1462.5ms, bookmark text: flower_2.
 
 # [Python](#tab/python)
 
-For more information, see <a href="/python/api/azure-cognitiveservices-speech/azure.cognitiveservices.speech.speechsynthesizer#bookmark-reached" target="_blank"> `bookmark_reached` </a>.
+For more information, see [`bookmark_reached`](/python/api/azure-cognitiveservices-speech/azure.cognitiveservices.speech.speechsynthesizer#bookmark-reached).
 
 ```python
 # The unit of evt.audio_offset is tick (1 tick = 100 nanoseconds), divide it by 10,000 to convert to milliseconds.
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ Bookmark reached, audio offset: 1462.5ms, bookmark text: flower_2.
 
 # [JavaScript](#tab/javascript)
 
-For more information, see <a href="/javascript/api/microsoft-cognitiveservices-speech-sdk/speechsynthesizer#bookmarkReached" target="_blank"> `bookmarkReached`</a>.
+For more information, see [`bookmarkReached`](/javascript/api/microsoft-cognitiveservices-speech-sdk/speechsynthesizer#bookmarkReached).
 
 ```javascript
 synthesizer.bookmarkReached = function (s, e) {
@@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ For the example SSML above, the `bookmarkReached` event will be triggered twice,
 
 # [Objective-C](#tab/objectivec)
 
-For more information, see <a href="/objectivec/cognitive-services/speech/spxspeechsynthesizer#addbookmarkreachedeventhandler" target="_blank"> `addBookmarkReachedEventHandler` </a>.
+For more information, see [`addBookmarkReachedEventHandler`](/objectivec/cognitive-services/speech/spxspeechsynthesizer#addbookmarkreachedeventhandler).
 
 ```objectivec
 [synthesizer addBookmarkReachedEventHandler: ^ (SPXSpeechSynthesizer *synthesizer, SPXSpeechSynthesisBookmarkEventArgs *eventArgs) {
@@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ Bookmark reached. Audio offset: 1462.5ms, bookmark text: flower_2.
 
 # [Swift](#tab/swift)
 
-For more information, see <a href="/objectivec/cognitive-services/speech/spxspeechsynthesizer" target="_blank"> `addBookmarkReachedEventHandler` </a>.
+For more information, see [`addBookmarkReachedEventHandler`](/objectivec/cognitive-services/speech/spxspeechsynthesizer).
 
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