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I just put together a small test file to see how my Kindle handles exclamation and question marks, and found something interesting - it's when they're enclosed in quote marks that Kindle's TTS has problems with them.
With no quote marks, it treats the period like a period.
With quote marks around the sentence, the inflexion used is almost as if it's treating the period like a comma.
With no quote marks, it treats the exclamation mark like a period - no sense of emphasis or exclamation in the intonation, but at least it does treat it like the end of a sentence.
With quote marks around the sentence, it ignores the exclamation mark completely, running straight on into the following sentence.
With no quote marks, it treats the question mark like a question, with rising inflexion at the end of the sentence.
With quote marks around the sentence, it ignores the question mark, running straight on into the following sentence.
Test MOBI file attached for anyone who wants to check it out.
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