[AussieWog93]

Esperanto doesn't have accents that emphasise stress the same way other langauges do. The little markers over the characters indicate that it's a completely different letter with a completely different vowel/consonant sound (and they have their own entries in the alphabet).

For example, "Co" would be pronounced like "Tso", whereas "Ĉo" would be pronounced like "Cho".

Pronunciation is completely standardised, with stress (almost?) always placed on the penultimate syllable.