diff --git a/neon_speech/service.py b/neon_speech/service.py
index c8ddc9d..47953e5 100644
--- a/neon_speech/service.py
+++ b/neon_speech/service.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 from ovos_utils.log import LOG, log_deprecation
 from neon_utils.configuration_utils import get_neon_user_config
 from neon_utils.metrics_utils import Stopwatch
+from neon_utils.parse_utils import clean_quotes
 from neon_utils.user_utils import apply_local_user_profile_updates
 from ovos_bus_client import Message
 from ovos_config.config import update_mycroft_config
@@ -572,6 +573,8 @@ def _get_stt_from_file(self, wav_file: str,
                 LOG.warning("Transcriptions is a str, no alternatives provided")
                 transcriptions = [transcriptions]
 
+            transcriptions = [clean_quotes(t) for t in transcriptions]
+
         get_stt = float(_stopwatch.time)
         with _stopwatch:
             audio, audio_context = self.transformers.transform(audio_data)