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import re
import unicodedata
from builtins import str as unicode
from paddlespeech.t2s.frontend.normalizer.numbers import normalize_numbers
[docs]def normalize(sentence):
""" Normalize English text.
"""
# preprocessing
sentence = unicode(sentence)
sentence = normalize_numbers(sentence)
sentence = ''.join(
char for char in unicodedata.normalize('NFD', sentence)
if unicodedata.category(char) != 'Mn') # Strip accents
sentence = sentence.lower()
sentence = re.sub(r"[^ a-z'.,?!\-]", "", sentence)
sentence = sentence.replace("i.e.", "that is")
sentence = sentence.replace("e.g.", "for example")
return sentence