diff --git a/utils/synthesis.py b/utils/synthesis.py
index 58d3c433..df36438a 100644
--- a/utils/synthesis.py
+++ b/utils/synthesis.py
@@ -11,14 +11,19 @@ from matplotlib import pylab as plt
 def synthesis(m, s, CONFIG, use_cuda, ap):
     """ Given the text, synthesising the audio """
     text_cleaner = [CONFIG.text_cleaner]
-    # print(phoneme_to_sequence(s, text_cleaner))
+    # print(phoneme_to_sequence(s, text_cleaner))s
     # print(sequence_to_phoneme(phoneme_to_sequence(s, text_cleaner)))
-    seq = np.asarray(
-                phoneme_to_sequence(s, text_cleaner), dtype=np.int32)
+    if CONFIG.use_phonemes:
+        seq = np.asarray(
+            phoneme_to_sequence(s, text_cleaner, CONFIG.phoneme_language),
+            dtype=np.int32)
+    else:
+        seq = np.asarray(text_to_sequence(s, text_cleaner), dtype=np.int32)
     chars_var = torch.from_numpy(seq).unsqueeze(0)
     if use_cuda:
         chars_var = chars_var.cuda()
-    mel_spec, linear_spec, alignments, stop_tokens = m.forward(chars_var.long())
+    mel_spec, linear_spec, alignments, stop_tokens = m.forward(
+        chars_var.long())
     linear_spec = linear_spec[0].data.cpu().numpy()
     mel_spec = mel_spec[0].data.cpu().numpy()
     alignment = alignments[0].cpu().data.numpy()