diff --git a/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/ConversationView.java b/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/ConversationView.java
index 716523462..95cebbd9a 100644
--- a/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/ConversationView.java
+++ b/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/ConversationView.java
@@ -148,7 +148,6 @@ public class ConversationView extends ScrollView {
     	// unknown linearizations in output: darkest red color. But replace [ ] by spaces and remove _ for better speech synthesis
     	else if (target.toString().contains("[")) {
     		view.setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.second_person_worst_utterance_bg));
-    		target = target.toString().replace('[',' ').replace(']',' ').replaceAll("_","").trim();
     	}
 
     	// parse by domain grammar, marked by +, green color
diff --git a/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/MainActivity.java b/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/MainActivity.java
index 1d0bcd592..f4f303f64 100644
--- a/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/MainActivity.java
+++ b/src/ui/android/src/org/grammaticalframework/ui/android/MainActivity.java
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ public class MainActivity extends Activity {
                 if (DBG) Log.d(TAG, "Speaking: " + res.first);
             	CharSequence text2 = 
             		mConversationView.addSecondPersonUtterance(input, text, alts);
+            	text2 = text2.toString().replace('[',' ').replace(']',' ').replaceAll("_","").trim();
                 mTts.speak(getTargetLanguageCode(), text2.toString());
 
                 hideProgressBar();