diff --git a/TTS/tts/datasets/dataset.py b/TTS/tts/datasets/dataset.py
index 9de40c2b..d4a12c07 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/datasets/dataset.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/datasets/dataset.py
@@ -69,9 +69,6 @@ class TTSDataset(Dataset):
 
             samples (list): List of dataset samples.
 
-            tokenizer (TTSTokenizer): tokenizer to convert text to sequence IDs. If None init internally else
-                use the given. Defaults to None.
-
             tokenizer (TTSTokenizer): tokenizer to convert text to sequence IDs. If None init internally else
                 use the given. Defaults to None.
 
@@ -205,20 +202,6 @@ class TTSDataset(Dataset):
             token_ids = self.tokenizer.text_to_ids(text)
         return np.array(token_ids, dtype=np.int32)
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def _parse_sample(item):
-        language_name = None
-        attn_file = None
-        if len(item) == 5:
-            text, wav_file, speaker_name, language_name, attn_file = item
-        elif len(item) == 4:
-            text, wav_file, speaker_name, language_name = item
-        elif len(item) == 3:
-            text, wav_file, speaker_name = item
-        else:
-            token_ids = self.tokenizer.text_to_ids(text)
-        return token_ids
-
     def load_data(self, idx):
         item = self.samples[idx]