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Problem

Create a TTS web app with indications for the current reading sentence and the ability to highlight the currently playing word by fetching SSML content from an API and parsing the <s> elements into sentences without using DOMParser or external libraries.

Asked in the Take-home Assessment stage. 1 hour 30 minutes time limit. Implement fetchContent, parseContentIntoSentences, a useSpeech hook, and UI controls for playback and displaying the currently read sentence and word.

Input

ssml: a string containing SSML with one or more <s> elements

Output

A list of sentence strings extracted from the <s> elements, in order
Playback state that identifies the current sentence and current word while speech is active

Constraints

1 <= len(ssml) <= 10^5
The input contains zero or more <s>...</s> blocks
Sentence text may include spaces and punctuation
No DOMParser or external parsing libraries are allowed

Function Signature

def parse_content_into_sentences(ssml):