Using TTS (Text to speech) What characters are illegal?

I'm using TTS to generate lots of audio files from text documents. TTS hangs up from time to time on different characters. Is there a list of illegal characters that I can try to avoid? The text is already written so I'll need to make some sort of batch process to strip and/or replace illegal characters. Here's an example of what Im typing in the terminal: say -o ~/Desktop/TTS/AudioFile.aiff This is the text to be read in the audio file.
Maybe I'm just looking for characters that are illegal in the terminal?
Any help is appreciated, Thanks!

Yeah, excel might be putting escape codes or such in there, maybe een a printer driver & fonts if I know MS.
I don't know about excel, but from NeoOffice I can save as an .xls file as txt/csv.
I looked a an xls file in HexEdit & there is far more junk than text in it.

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