SpeechSynthesizer.SpeakSsml

I quickly got annoyed when I was trying to fool around with the SpeechSynthesizer class.  I remember I got a SSML read working a while ago, but couldn't figure it out to save my life this time around.  Anyway, I couldn't get it to read correctly from a .ssml file but I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is.  Anyway, I got sick of playing with it for now and just wrote it out manually - lame yes, but it works:
private String BuildSSML()
{
  StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
  sb.Append("<?xml version=''1.0''?> ");
  sb.Append("<speak version=''1.0'' ");
  sb.Append("xml:lang=''en-US''>");
  sb.Append("<voice gender=''female''> Hi, I'm Barbie Cummings even though I sound like a computer</voice>");
  sb.Append("");
  sb.Append(" <voice gender=''female'' variant=''2''>");
  sb.Append("This still isn't close");
  sb.Append(" </voice>");
  sb.Append("");
  sb.Append("<voice name=''EvilDevilCuckoo''>Barbie Cummings rulez</voice>");
  sb.Append("</speak>");
  return sb.ToString().Replace("''", '"'.ToString());
}


Then all you need to do is call the SpeakSsml method of the SpeechSynthesizer like this:

sz.SpeakSsml(BuildSSML());

Again though, this is just cursory stuff. You can really kick a55 with SSML if you want to.  For a little more on the spec if you're not familiar with it, look here