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Found a bug with it, but the tag </v> should cancel all tags already. I'll publish another update that fixes this.

I thought about using custom events for this, but the usage of events is very different than what we're after. I really think it'll be better to use preparsing.

I wrote up some working code that does what you need:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class STMPreparse3 : MonoBehaviour {
    public string textTag = "transcribe";
    public void Parse(STMTextContainer x)
    {
        string startTag = "<" + textTag + ">";
        string endTag = "</" + textTag + ">";
        int startingPoint = x.text.IndexOf(startTag);
        int endingPoint = startingPoint > -1 ? x.text.IndexOf(endTag, startingPoint) : -1; //get tag after starting tag point
        //optional, where this tag ends
        if(endingPoint == -1)
        {
            endingPoint = x.text.Length;
        }
        else
        {
            //remove tag
            x.text = x.text.Remove(endingPoint, endTag.Length);
            //ending point is already accurate
        }
        //if this tag exists in STM's string...
        if(startingPoint > -1)
        {
            //remove tag
            x.text = x.text.Remove(startingPoint, startTag.Length);
            //push backwards
            endingPoint -= startTag.Length;
            //actually modify text
            Replace(x, startingPoint, endingPoint);
        }
    }
    void Replace(STMTextContainer x, int startingPoint, int endingPoint)
    {
        //int originalLength = x.text.Length;
        int skippedChars = startingPoint;
        //go thru string
        for(int i=startingPoint; i<endingPoint; i++) //for each letter in the original string...
        {
            string replaceValue = x.text[skippedChars].ToString(); //default value
            //replace specific characters with sequences
            //for this example, compare all letters as uppercase letters
            switch(x.text[skippedChars].ToString().ToUpper())
            {
                case "A": replaceValue = "aaa"; break;
                case "B": replaceValue = "bbb"; break;
                //etc etc...
            }
            //remove original character
            x.text = x.text.Remove(skippedChars, 1);
            //replace with sequence
            x.text = x.text.Insert(skippedChars, replaceValue);
            //1 by default, but adds up if more characters are inserted
            skippedChars += replaceValue.Length;
        }
    }
}

This code ignores other tags (which shouldn't overlap with this edge case anyway), but you can define a starting and ending point using <transcribe> and </transcribe> or whatever you change the textTag value to.