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diff --git a/layers/attention.py b/layers/attention.py
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+import torch
+from torch.autograd import Variable
+from torch import nn
+from torch.nn import functional as F
+
+
+class BahdanauAttention(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, dim):
+        super(BahdanauAttention, self).__init__()
+        self.query_layer = nn.Linear(dim, dim, bias=False)
+        self.tanh = nn.Tanh()
+        self.v = nn.Linear(dim, 1, bias=False)
+
+    def forward(self, query, processed_memory):
+        """
+        Args:
+            query: (batch, 1, dim) or (batch, dim)
+            processed_memory: (batch, max_time, dim)
+        """
+        if query.dim() == 2:
+            # insert time-axis for broadcasting
+            query = query.unsqueeze(1)
+        # (batch, 1, dim)
+        processed_query = self.query_layer(query)
+
+        # (batch, max_time, 1)
+        alignment = self.v(self.tanh(processed_query + processed_memory))
+
+        # (batch, max_time)
+        return alignment.squeeze(-1)
+
+
+def get_mask_from_lengths(memory, memory_lengths):
+    """Get mask tensor from list of length
+
+    Args:
+        memory: (batch, max_time, dim)
+        memory_lengths: array like
+    """
+    mask = memory.data.new(memory.size(0), memory.size(1)).byte().zero_()
+    for idx, l in enumerate(memory_lengths):
+        mask[idx][:l] = 1
+    return ~mask
+
+
+class AttentionWrapper(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, rnn_cell, attention_mechanism,
+                 score_mask_value=-float("inf")):
+        super(AttentionWrapper, self).__init__()
+        self.rnn_cell = rnn_cell
+        self.attention_mechanism = attention_mechanism
+        self.score_mask_value = score_mask_value
+
+    def forward(self, query, attention, cell_state, memory,
+                processed_memory=None, mask=None, memory_lengths=None):
+        if processed_memory is None:
+            processed_memory = memory
+        if memory_lengths is not None and mask is None:
+            mask = get_mask_from_lengths(memory, memory_lengths)
+
+        # Concat input query and previous attention context
+        cell_input = torch.cat((query, attention), -1)
+
+        # Feed it to RNN
+        cell_output = self.rnn_cell(cell_input, cell_state)
+
+        # Alignment
+        # (batch, max_time)
+        alignment = self.attention_mechanism(cell_output, processed_memory)
+
+        if mask is not None:
+            mask = mask.view(query.size(0), -1)
+            alignment.data.masked_fill_(mask, self.score_mask_value)
+
+        # Normalize attention weight
+        alignment = F.softmax(alignment, dim=0)
+
+        # Attention context vector
+        # (batch, 1, dim)
+        attention = torch.bmm(alignment.unsqueeze(1), memory)
+
+        # (batch, dim)
+        attention = attention.squeeze(1)
+
+        return cell_output, attention, alignment
+
diff --git a/layers/tacotron.py b/layers/tacotron.py
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+# coding: utf-8
+import torch
+from torch.autograd import Variable
+from torch import nn
+
+from .attention import BahdanauAttention, AttentionWrapper
+from .attention import get_mask_from_lengths
+
+class Prenet(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, in_dim, sizes=[256, 128]):
+        super(Prenet, self).__init__()
+        in_sizes = [in_dim] + sizes[:-1]
+        self.layers = nn.ModuleList(
+            [nn.Linear(in_size, out_size)
+             for (in_size, out_size) in zip(in_sizes, sizes)])
+        self.relu = nn.ReLU()
+        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(0.5)
+
+    def forward(self, inputs):
+        for linear in self.layers:
+            inputs = self.dropout(self.relu(linear(inputs)))
+
+        return inputs
+
+
+class BatchNormConv1d(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, in_dim, out_dim, kernel_size, stride, padding,
+                 activation=None):
+        super(BatchNormConv1d, self).__init__()
+        self.conv1d = nn.Conv1d(in_dim, out_dim,
+                                kernel_size=kernel_size,
+                                stride=stride, padding=padding, bias=False)
+        # Following tensorflow's default parameters
+        self.bn = nn.BatchNorm1d(out_dim, momentum=0.99, eps=1e-3)
+        self.activation = activation
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        x = self.conv1d(x)
+        if self.activation is not None:
+            x = self.activation(x)
+        return self.bn(x)
+
+
+class Highway(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, in_size, out_size):
+        super(Highway, self).__init__()
+        self.H = nn.Linear(in_size, out_size)
+        self.H.bias.data.zero_()
+        self.T = nn.Linear(in_size, out_size)
+        self.T.bias.data.fill_(-1)
+        self.relu = nn.ReLU()
+        self.sigmoid = nn.Sigmoid()
+
+    def forward(self, inputs):
+        H = self.relu(self.H(inputs))
+        T = self.sigmoid(self.T(inputs))
+        return H * T + inputs * (1.0 - T)
+
+
+class CBHG(nn.Module):
+    """CBHG module: a recurrent neural network composed of:
+        - 1-d convolution banks
+        - Highway networks + residual connections
+        - Bidirectional gated recurrent units
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, in_dim, K=16, projections=[128, 128]):
+        super(CBHG, self).__init__()
+        self.in_dim = in_dim
+        self.relu = nn.ReLU()
+        self.conv1d_banks = nn.ModuleList(
+            [BatchNormConv1d(in_dim, in_dim, kernel_size=k, stride=1,
+                             padding=k // 2, activation=self.relu)
+             for k in range(1, K + 1)])
+        self.max_pool1d = nn.MaxPool1d(kernel_size=2, stride=1, padding=1)
+
+        in_sizes = [K * in_dim] + projections[:-1]
+        activations = [self.relu] * (len(projections) - 1) + [None]
+        self.conv1d_projections = nn.ModuleList(
+            [BatchNormConv1d(in_size, out_size, kernel_size=3, stride=1,
+                             padding=1, activation=ac)
+             for (in_size, out_size, ac) in zip(
+                 in_sizes, projections, activations)])
+
+        self.pre_highway = nn.Linear(projections[-1], in_dim, bias=False)
+        self.highways = nn.ModuleList(
+            [Highway(in_dim, in_dim) for _ in range(4)])
+
+        self.gru = nn.GRU(
+            in_dim, in_dim, 1, batch_first=True, bidirectional=True)
+
+    def forward(self, inputs, input_lengths=None):
+        # (B, T_in, in_dim)
+        x = inputs
+
+        # Needed to perform conv1d on time-axis
+        # (B, in_dim, T_in)
+        if x.size(-1) == self.in_dim:
+            x = x.transpose(1, 2)
+
+        T = x.size(-1)
+
+        # (B, in_dim*K, T_in)
+        # Concat conv1d bank outputs
+        x = torch.cat([conv1d(x)[:, :, :T] for conv1d in self.conv1d_banks], dim=1)
+        assert x.size(1) == self.in_dim * len(self.conv1d_banks)
+        x = self.max_pool1d(x)[:, :, :T]
+
+        for conv1d in self.conv1d_projections:
+            x = conv1d(x)
+
+        # (B, T_in, in_dim)
+        # Back to the original shape
+        x = x.transpose(1, 2)
+
+        if x.size(-1) != self.in_dim:
+            x = self.pre_highway(x)
+
+        # Residual connection
+        x += inputs
+        for highway in self.highways:
+            x = highway(x)
+
+        if input_lengths is not None:
+            x = nn.utils.rnn.pack_padded_sequence(
+                x, input_lengths, batch_first=True)
+
+        # (B, T_in, in_dim*2)
+        self.gru.flatten_parameters()
+        outputs, _ = self.gru(x)
+
+        if input_lengths is not None:
+            outputs, _ = nn.utils.rnn.pad_packed_sequence(
+                outputs, batch_first=True)
+
+        return outputs
+
+
+class Encoder(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, in_dim):
+        super(Encoder, self).__init__()
+        self.prenet = Prenet(in_dim, sizes=[256, 128])
+        self.cbhg = CBHG(128, K=16, projections=[128, 128])
+
+    def forward(self, inputs, input_lengths=None):
+        inputs = self.prenet(inputs)
+        return self.cbhg(inputs, input_lengths)
+
+
+class Decoder(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, memory_dim, r):
+        super(Decoder, self).__init__()
+        self.memory_dim = memory_dim
+        self.r = r
+        self.prenet = Prenet(memory_dim * r, sizes=[256, 128])
+        # attetion RNN
+        self.attention_rnn = AttentionWrapper(
+            nn.GRUCell(256 + 128, 256),
+            BahdanauAttention(256)
+        )
+        
+        self.memory_layer = nn.Linear(256, 256, bias=False)
+
+        # concat and project context and attention vectors
+        # (prenet_out + attention context) -> output
+        self.project_to_decoder_in = nn.Linear(512, 256)
+
+        # decoder RNNs
+        self.decoder_rnns = nn.ModuleList(
+            [nn.GRUCell(256, 256) for _ in range(2)])
+
+        self.proj_to_mel = nn.Linear(256, memory_dim * r)
+        self.max_decoder_steps = 200
+
+    def forward(self, decoder_inputs, memory=None, memory_lengths=None):
+        """
+        Decoder forward step.
+
+        If decoder inputs are not given (e.g., at testing time), as noted in
+        Tacotron paper, greedy decoding is adapted.
+
+        Args:
+            decoder_inputs: Encoder outputs. (B, T_encoder, dim)
+            memory: Decoder memory. i.e., mel-spectrogram. If None (at eval-time),
+              decoder outputs are used as decoder inputs.
+            memory_lengths: Encoder output (memory) lengths. If not None, used for
+              attention masking.
+        """
+        B = decoder_inputs.size(0)
+
+        processed_memory = self.memory_layer(decoder_inputs)
+        if memory_lengths is not None:
+            mask = get_mask_from_lengths(processed_memory, memory_lengths)
+        else:
+            mask = None
+
+        # Run greedy decoding if memory is None
+        greedy = memory is None
+
+        if memory is not None:
+            # Grouping multiple frames if necessary
+            if memory.size(-1) == self.memory_dim:
+                memory = memory.view(B, memory.size(1) // self.r, -1)
+            assert memory.size(-1) == self.memory_dim * self.r,\
+                " !! Dimension mismatch {} vs {} * {}".format(memory.size(-1),
+                                                         self.memory_dim, self.r)
+            T_decoder = memory.size(1)
+
+        # go frames - 0 frames tarting the sequence
+        initial_input = Variable(
+            decoder_inputs.data.new(B, self.memory_dim * self.r).zero_())
+
+        # Init decoder states
+        attention_rnn_hidden = Variable(
+            decoder_inputs.data.new(B, 256).zero_())
+        decoder_rnn_hiddens = [Variable(
+            decoder_inputs.data.new(B, 256).zero_())
+            for _ in range(len(self.decoder_rnns))]
+        current_attention = Variable(
+            decoder_inputs.data.new(B, 256).zero_())
+
+        # Time first (T_decoder, B, memory_dim)
+        if memory is not None:
+            memory = memory.transpose(0, 1)
+
+        outputs = []
+        alignments = []
+
+        t = 0
+        current_input = initial_input
+        while True:
+            if t > 0:
+                current_input = outputs[-1] if greedy else memory[t - 1]
+            # Prenet
+            current_input = self.prenet(current_input)
+
+            # Attention RNN
+            attention_rnn_hidden, current_attention, alignment = self.attention_rnn(
+                current_input, current_attention, attention_rnn_hidden,
+                decoder_inputs, processed_memory=processed_memory, mask=mask)
+
+            # Concat RNN output and attention context vector
+            decoder_input = self.project_to_decoder_in(
+                torch.cat((attention_rnn_hidden, current_attention), -1))
+
+            # Pass through the decoder RNNs
+            for idx in range(len(self.decoder_rnns)):
+                decoder_rnn_hiddens[idx] = self.decoder_rnns[idx](
+                    decoder_input, decoder_rnn_hiddens[idx])
+                # Residual connectinon
+                decoder_input = decoder_rnn_hiddens[idx] + decoder_input
+
+            output = decoder_input
+
+            # predict mel vectors from decoder vectors
+            output = self.proj_to_mel(output)
+
+            outputs += [output]
+            alignments += [alignment]
+
+            t += 1
+
+            if greedy:
+                if t > 1 and is_end_of_frames(output):
+                    break
+                elif t > self.max_decoder_steps:
+                    print("Warning! doesn't seems to be converged")
+                    break
+            else:
+                if t >= T_decoder:
+                    break
+
+        assert greedy or len(outputs) == T_decoder
+
+        # Back to batch first
+        alignments = torch.stack(alignments).transpose(0, 1)
+        outputs = torch.stack(outputs).transpose(0, 1).contiguous()
+
+        return outputs, alignments
+
+
+def is_end_of_frames(output, eps=0.2):
+    return (output.data <= eps).all()
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+# coding: utf-8
+import torch
+from torch.autograd import Variable
+from torch import nn
+from utils.text.symbols import symbols
+from Tacotron.layers.tacotron import Prenet, Encoder, Decoder, CBHG
+
+class Tacotron(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, embedding_dim=256, linear_dim=1025, mel_dim=80,
+                 freq_dim=1025, r=5, padding_idx=None,
+                 use_memory_mask=False):
+        super(Tacotron, self).__init__()
+        self.mel_dim = mel_dim
+        self.linear_dim = linear_dim
+        self.use_memory_mask = use_memory_mask
+        self.embedding = nn.Embedding(len(symbols), embedding_dim,
+                                      padding_idx=padding_idx)
+        # Trying smaller std
+        self.embedding.weight.data.normal_(0, 0.3)
+        self.encoder = Encoder(embedding_dim)
+        self.decoder = Decoder(mel_dim, r)
+
+        self.postnet = CBHG(mel_dim, K=8, projections=[256, mel_dim])
+        self.last_linear = nn.Linear(mel_dim * 2, freq_dim)
+
+    def forward(self, characters, mel_specs=None, input_lengths=None):
+        B = characters.size(0)
+
+        inputs = self.embedding(characters)
+        # (B, T', in_dim)
+        encoder_outputs = self.encoder(inputs, input_lengths)
+
+        if self.use_memory_mask:
+            memory_lengths = input_lengths
+        else:
+            memory_lengths = None
+        # (B, T', mel_dim*r)
+        mel_outputs, alignments = self.decoder(
+            encoder_outputs, mel_specs, memory_lengths=memory_lengths)
+
+        # Post net processing below
+
+        # Reshape
+        # (B, T, mel_dim)
+        mel_outputs = mel_outputs.view(B, -1, self.mel_dim)
+
+        linear_outputs = self.postnet(mel_outputs)
+        linear_outputs = self.last_linear(linear_outputs)
+
+        return mel_outputs, linear_outputs, alignments
diff --git a/utils/text/__init__.py b/utils/text/__init__.py
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+#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+import re
+from Tacotron.utils.text import cleaners
+from Tacotron.utils.text.symbols import symbols
+
+
+# Mappings from symbol to numeric ID and vice versa:
+_symbol_to_id = {s: i for i, s in enumerate(symbols)}
+_id_to_symbol = {i: s for i, s in enumerate(symbols)}
+
+# Regular expression matching text enclosed in curly braces:
+_curly_re = re.compile(r'(.*?)\{(.+?)\}(.*)')
+
+
+def text_to_sequence(text, cleaner_names):
+    '''Converts a string of text to a sequence of IDs corresponding to the symbols in the text.
+
+      The text can optionally have ARPAbet sequences enclosed in curly braces embedded
+      in it. For example, "Turn left on {HH AW1 S S T AH0 N} Street."
+
+      Args:
+        text: string to convert to a sequence
+        cleaner_names: names of the cleaner functions to run the text through
+
+      Returns:
+        List of integers corresponding to the symbols in the text
+    '''
+    sequence = []
+
+    # Check for curly braces and treat their contents as ARPAbet:
+    while len(text):
+        m = _curly_re.match(text)
+        if not m:
+            sequence += _symbols_to_sequence(_clean_text(text, cleaner_names))
+            break
+        sequence += _symbols_to_sequence(
+            _clean_text(m.group(1), cleaner_names))
+        sequence += _arpabet_to_sequence(m.group(2))
+        text = m.group(3)
+
+    # Append EOS token
+    sequence.append(_symbol_to_id['~'])
+    return sequence
+
+
+def sequence_to_text(sequence):
+    '''Converts a sequence of IDs back to a string'''
+    result = ''
+    for symbol_id in sequence:
+        if symbol_id in _id_to_symbol:
+            s = _id_to_symbol[symbol_id]
+            # Enclose ARPAbet back in curly braces:
+            if len(s) > 1 and s[0] == '@':
+                s = '{%s}' % s[1:]
+            result += s
+    return result.replace('}{', ' ')
+
+
+def _clean_text(text, cleaner_names):
+    for name in cleaner_names:
+        cleaner = getattr(cleaners, name)
+        if not cleaner:
+            raise Exception('Unknown cleaner: %s' % name)
+        text = cleaner(text)
+    return text
+
+
+def _symbols_to_sequence(symbols):
+    return [_symbol_to_id[s] for s in symbols if _should_keep_symbol(s)]
+
+
+def _arpabet_to_sequence(text):
+    return _symbols_to_sequence(['@' + s for s in text.split()])
+
+
+def _should_keep_symbol(s):
+    return s in _symbol_to_id and s is not '_' and s is not '~'
diff --git a/utils/text/cleaners.py b/utils/text/cleaners.py
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+#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+
+'''
+Cleaners are transformations that run over the input text at both training and eval time.
+
+Cleaners can be selected by passing a comma-delimited list of cleaner names as the "cleaners"
+hyperparameter. Some cleaners are English-specific. You'll typically want to use:
+  1. "english_cleaners" for English text
+  2. "transliteration_cleaners" for non-English text that can be transliterated to ASCII using
+     the Unidecode library (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode)
+  3. "basic_cleaners" if you do not want to transliterate (in this case, you should also update
+     the symbols in symbols.py to match your data).
+'''
+
+import re
+from unidecode import unidecode
+from .numbers import normalize_numbers
+
+
+# Regular expression matching whitespace:
+_whitespace_re = re.compile(r'\s+')
+
+# List of (regular expression, replacement) pairs for abbreviations:
+_abbreviations = [(re.compile('\\b%s\\.' % x[0], re.IGNORECASE), x[1]) for x in [
+    ('mrs', 'misess'),
+    ('mr', 'mister'),
+    ('dr', 'doctor'),
+    ('st', 'saint'),
+    ('co', 'company'),
+    ('jr', 'junior'),
+    ('maj', 'major'),
+    ('gen', 'general'),
+    ('drs', 'doctors'),
+    ('rev', 'reverend'),
+    ('lt', 'lieutenant'),
+    ('hon', 'honorable'),
+    ('sgt', 'sergeant'),
+    ('capt', 'captain'),
+    ('esq', 'esquire'),
+    ('ltd', 'limited'),
+    ('col', 'colonel'),
+    ('ft', 'fort'),
+]]
+
+
+def expand_abbreviations(text):
+    for regex, replacement in _abbreviations:
+        text = re.sub(regex, replacement, text)
+    return text
+
+
+def expand_numbers(text):
+    return normalize_numbers(text)
+
+
+def lowercase(text):
+    return text.lower()
+
+
+def collapse_whitespace(text):
+    return re.sub(_whitespace_re, ' ', text)
+
+
+def convert_to_ascii(text):
+    return unidecode(text)
+
+
+def basic_cleaners(text):
+    '''Basic pipeline that lowercases and collapses whitespace without transliteration.'''
+    text = lowercase(text)
+    text = collapse_whitespace(text)
+    return text
+
+
+def transliteration_cleaners(text):
+    '''Pipeline for non-English text that transliterates to ASCII.'''
+    text = convert_to_ascii(text)
+    text = lowercase(text)
+    text = collapse_whitespace(text)
+    return text
+
+
+def english_cleaners(text):
+    '''Pipeline for English text, including number and abbreviation expansion.'''
+    text = convert_to_ascii(text)
+    text = lowercase(text)
+    text = expand_numbers(text)
+    text = expand_abbreviations(text)
+    text = collapse_whitespace(text)
+    return text
diff --git a/utils/text/cmudict.py b/utils/text/cmudict.py
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+#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+
+import re
+
+
+valid_symbols = [
+    'AA', 'AA0', 'AA1', 'AA2', 'AE', 'AE0', 'AE1', 'AE2', 'AH', 'AH0', 'AH1', 'AH2',
+    'AO', 'AO0', 'AO1', 'AO2', 'AW', 'AW0', 'AW1', 'AW2', 'AY', 'AY0', 'AY1', 'AY2',
+    'B', 'CH', 'D', 'DH', 'EH', 'EH0', 'EH1', 'EH2', 'ER', 'ER0', 'ER1', 'ER2', 'EY',
+    'EY0', 'EY1', 'EY2', 'F', 'G', 'HH', 'IH', 'IH0', 'IH1', 'IH2', 'IY', 'IY0', 'IY1',
+    'IY2', 'JH', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'NG', 'OW', 'OW0', 'OW1', 'OW2', 'OY', 'OY0',
+    'OY1', 'OY2', 'P', 'R', 'S', 'SH', 'T', 'TH', 'UH', 'UH0', 'UH1', 'UH2', 'UW',
+    'UW0', 'UW1', 'UW2', 'V', 'W', 'Y', 'Z', 'ZH'
+]
+
+_valid_symbol_set = set(valid_symbols)
+
+
+class CMUDict:
+    '''Thin wrapper around CMUDict data. http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict'''
+
+    def __init__(self, file_or_path, keep_ambiguous=True):
+        if isinstance(file_or_path, str):
+            with open(file_or_path, encoding='latin-1') as f:
+                entries = _parse_cmudict(f)
+        else:
+            entries = _parse_cmudict(file_or_path)
+        if not keep_ambiguous:
+            entries = {word: pron for word,
+                       pron in entries.items() if len(pron) == 1}
+        self._entries = entries
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(self._entries)
+
+    def lookup(self, word):
+        '''Returns list of ARPAbet pronunciations of the given word.'''
+        return self._entries.get(word.upper())
+
+
+_alt_re = re.compile(r'\([0-9]+\)')
+
+
+def _parse_cmudict(file):
+    cmudict = {}
+    for line in file:
+        if len(line) and (line[0] >= 'A' and line[0] <= 'Z' or line[0] == "'"):
+            parts = line.split('  ')
+            word = re.sub(_alt_re, '', parts[0])
+            pronunciation = _get_pronunciation(parts[1])
+            if pronunciation:
+                if word in cmudict:
+                    cmudict[word].append(pronunciation)
+                else:
+                    cmudict[word] = [pronunciation]
+    return cmudict
+
+
+def _get_pronunciation(s):
+    parts = s.strip().split(' ')
+    for part in parts:
+        if part not in _valid_symbol_set:
+            return None
+    return ' '.join(parts)
diff --git a/utils/text/numbers.py b/utils/text/numbers.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4ce2d389
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/text/numbers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+import inflect
+import re
+
+
+_inflect = inflect.engine()
+_comma_number_re = re.compile(r'([0-9][0-9\,]+[0-9])')
+_decimal_number_re = re.compile(r'([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)')
+_pounds_re = re.compile(r'£([0-9\,]*[0-9]+)')
+_dollars_re = re.compile(r'\$([0-9\.\,]*[0-9]+)')
+_ordinal_re = re.compile(r'[0-9]+(st|nd|rd|th)')
+_number_re = re.compile(r'[0-9]+')
+
+
+def _remove_commas(m):
+    return m.group(1).replace(',', '')
+
+
+def _expand_decimal_point(m):
+    return m.group(1).replace('.', ' point ')
+
+
+def _expand_dollars(m):
+    match = m.group(1)
+    parts = match.split('.')
+    if len(parts) > 2:
+        return match + ' dollars'  # Unexpected format
+    dollars = int(parts[0]) if parts[0] else 0
+    cents = int(parts[1]) if len(parts) > 1 and parts[1] else 0
+    if dollars and cents:
+        dollar_unit = 'dollar' if dollars == 1 else 'dollars'
+        cent_unit = 'cent' if cents == 1 else 'cents'
+        return '%s %s, %s %s' % (dollars, dollar_unit, cents, cent_unit)
+    elif dollars:
+        dollar_unit = 'dollar' if dollars == 1 else 'dollars'
+        return '%s %s' % (dollars, dollar_unit)
+    elif cents:
+        cent_unit = 'cent' if cents == 1 else 'cents'
+        return '%s %s' % (cents, cent_unit)
+    else:
+        return 'zero dollars'
+
+
+def _expand_ordinal(m):
+    return _inflect.number_to_words(m.group(0))
+
+
+def _expand_number(m):
+    num = int(m.group(0))
+    if num > 1000 and num < 3000:
+        if num == 2000:
+            return 'two thousand'
+        elif num > 2000 and num < 2010:
+            return 'two thousand ' + _inflect.number_to_words(num % 100)
+        elif num % 100 == 0:
+            return _inflect.number_to_words(num // 100) + ' hundred'
+        else:
+            return _inflect.number_to_words(num, andword='', zero='oh', group=2).replace(', ', ' ')
+    else:
+        return _inflect.number_to_words(num, andword='')
+
+
+def normalize_numbers(text):
+    text = re.sub(_comma_number_re, _remove_commas, text)
+    text = re.sub(_pounds_re, r'\1 pounds', text)
+    text = re.sub(_dollars_re, _expand_dollars, text)
+    text = re.sub(_decimal_number_re, _expand_decimal_point, text)
+    text = re.sub(_ordinal_re, _expand_ordinal, text)
+    text = re.sub(_number_re, _expand_number, text)
+    return text
diff --git a/utils/text/symbols.py b/utils/text/symbols.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cd873a64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/text/symbols.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+
+'''
+Defines the set of symbols used in text input to the model.
+
+The default is a set of ASCII characters that works well for English or text that has been run
+through Unidecode. For other data, you can modify _characters. See TRAINING_DATA.md for details.
+'''
+from Tacotron.utils.text import cmudict
+
+_pad = '_'
+_eos = '~'
+_characters = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!\'(),-.:;? '
+
+# Prepend "@" to ARPAbet symbols to ensure uniqueness (some are the same as uppercase letters):
+_arpabet = ['@' + s for s in cmudict.valid_symbols]
+
+# Export all symbols:
+symbols = [_pad, _eos] + list(_characters) + _arpabet
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print(symbols)