diff --git a/packages/text-to-speech/mocha-config.json b/packages/text-to-speech/mocha-config.json
index 5a2631f42..8e24eb08b 100644
--- a/packages/text-to-speech/mocha-config.json
+++ b/packages/text-to-speech/mocha-config.json
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 {
     "extension": ["ts"],
-    "spec": "test/**/*.test.ts"
+    "spec": "test/**/*.test.ts",
+    "timeout": 10000
   }
diff --git a/packages/text-to-speech/test/htmlToSsml.test.ts b/packages/text-to-speech/test/htmlToSsml.test.ts
index 88c23d386..62063c3d2 100644
--- a/packages/text-to-speech/test/htmlToSsml.test.ts
+++ b/packages/text-to-speech/test/htmlToSsml.test.ts
@@ -350,6 +350,41 @@ describe('convert HTML to Speech file', () => {
       options: TEST_OPTIONS,
     })
     expect(speechFile.utterances).to.have.lengthOf(2)
-    expect(speechFile.utterances[1].text).to.eql('McMeekin makes an extended case that Stalin was preparing to attack Nazi Germany when Hitler attacked him, that the two dictators were basically in a race to see who could mobilize to betray the other first — and that the initial Soviet debacle in 1941 happened in part because Stalin was also pushing his military toward an offensive alignment, and they were caught in a "mid-mobilization limbo."')
+    expect(speechFile.utterances[1].text).to.eql(
+      'McMeekin makes an extended case that Stalin was preparing to attack Nazi Germany when Hitler attacked him, that the two dictators were basically in a race to see who could mobilize to betray the other first — and that the initial Soviet debacle in 1941 happened in part because Stalin was also pushing his military toward an offensive alignment, and they were caught in a "mid-mobilization limbo."'
+    )
+  })
+
+  it('skip unwanted elements', () => {
+    const html = `<div class="page" id="readability-page-1" data-omnivore-anchor-idx="1">
+      <p data-omnivore-anchor-idx="2">This is a test.</p>
+      <script data-omnivore-anchor-idx="3">alert('hello');</script>
+      <style data-omnivore-anchor-idx="4">body { color: red; }</style>
+      <iframe data-omnivore-anchor-idx="6" src="https://example.com">test</iframe>
+      <figcaption data-omnivore-anchor-idx="7">test</figcaption>
+      </div>`
+
+    const speechFile = htmlToSpeechFile({
+      content: html,
+      options: TEST_OPTIONS,
+    })
+    expect(speechFile.utterances).to.have.lengthOf(1)
+    expect(speechFile.utterances[0].text).to.eql('This is a test.')
+  })
+
+  it('filters out utterances with only punctuation or whitespace', () => {
+    const html = `<div class="page" id="readability-page-1" data-omnivore-anchor-idx="1">
+      <p data-omnivore-anchor-idx="2">This is a test.</p>
+      <p data-omnivore-anchor-idx="3">.</p>
+      <p data-omnivore-anchor-idx="4"> </p>
+      </div>`
+
+    const speechFile = htmlToSpeechFile({
+      content: html,
+      options: TEST_OPTIONS,
+    })
+
+    expect(speechFile.utterances).to.have.lengthOf(1)
+    expect(speechFile.utterances[0].text).to.eql('This is a test.')
   })
 })
diff --git a/packages/text-to-speech/tsconfig.json b/packages/text-to-speech/tsconfig.json
index 5b6ea3e00..7634a8d53 100644
--- a/packages/text-to-speech/tsconfig.json
+++ b/packages/text-to-speech/tsconfig.json
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
     // Generate d.ts files
     "declaration": true
   },
-  "include": ["src"]
+  "include": ["src", "test"]
 }