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Text to speech in Japanese

Japanese has pitch accent, so the same syllables can be two words depending on where the pitch drops. Textbooks mark it rarely, and native speakers do it without thinking.

人類社会の全部の構成員の固有の尊厳と平等で譲れない権利とを承認することは、世界における自由、正義と平和の基礎だから、

From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, read by someone who speaks the language themselves.
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