diff --git a/text-to-speech/src/test/java/com/ibm/watson/developer_cloud/text_to_speech/v1/TextToSpeechTest.java b/text-to-speech/src/test/java/com/ibm/watson/developer_cloud/text_to_speech/v1/TextToSpeechTest.java
index 35210e7e3ba..5cf4da53d4e 100644
--- a/text-to-speech/src/test/java/com/ibm/watson/developer_cloud/text_to_speech/v1/TextToSpeechTest.java
+++ b/text-to-speech/src/test/java/com/ibm/watson/developer_cloud/text_to_speech/v1/TextToSpeechTest.java
@@ -197,10 +197,10 @@ public void testSynthesize() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
         service.synthesize(text, Voice.EN_LISA, new AudioFormat(HttpMediaType.AUDIO_PCM + "; rate=16000")).execute();
     final RecordedRequest request = server.takeRequest();
     final HttpUrl requestUrl = HttpUrl.parse("http://www.example.com" + request.getPath());
-    String encodedText = URLEncoder.encode(text, "UTF-8");
+    String modifiedText = text.replace(";", "%3B");
 
     assertEquals(SYNTHESIZE_PATH, requestUrl.encodedPath());
-    assertEquals(encodedText, requestUrl.queryParameter("text"));
+    assertEquals(modifiedText, requestUrl.queryParameter("text"));
     assertEquals(Voice.EN_LISA.getName(), requestUrl.queryParameter("voice"));
     assertEquals(HttpMediaType.AUDIO_PCM + "; rate=16000", requestUrl.queryParameter("accept"));
     assertNotNull(in);