diff --git a/TTS/utils/audio.py b/TTS/utils/audio.py
index c476065d..609eab0a 100644
--- a/TTS/utils/audio.py
+++ b/TTS/utils/audio.py
@@ -429,11 +429,13 @@ class AudioProcessor(object):
     def dequantize(x, bits):
         return 2 * x / (2 ** bits - 1) - 1
 
+
 def _log(x, base):
     if base == 10:
         return np.log10(x)
     return np.log(x)
 
+
 def _exp(x, base):
     if base == 10:
         return np.power(10, x)
diff --git a/TTS/utils/synthesizer.py b/TTS/utils/synthesizer.py
index 3753c121..b1ae968d 100644
--- a/TTS/utils/synthesizer.py
+++ b/TTS/utils/synthesizer.py
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ class Synthesizer(object):
         If you have certain special characters in your text, you need to handle
         them before providing the text to Synthesizer.
 
+        TODO: set the segmenter based on the source language
+
         Args:
             tts_checkpoint (str): path to the tts model file.
             tts_config_path (str): path to the tts config file.
@@ -152,7 +154,7 @@ class Synthesizer(object):
         if use_cuda:
             self.vocoder_model.cuda()
 
-    def _split_into_sentences(self, text) -> List[str]:
+    def split_into_sentences(self, text) -> List[str]:
         """Split give text into sentences.
 
         Args:
@@ -187,7 +189,7 @@ class Synthesizer(object):
         """
         start_time = time.time()
         wavs = []
-        sens = self._split_into_sentences(text)
+        sens = self.split_into_sentences(text)
         print(" > Text splitted to sentences.")
         print(sens)
 
diff --git a/tests/test_synthesizer.py b/tests/test_synthesizer.py
index 46b9ab74..aa06a6f0 100644
--- a/tests/test_synthesizer.py
+++ b/tests/test_synthesizer.py
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ class SynthesizerTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_split_into_sentences(self):
         """Check demo server sentences split as expected"""
         print("\n > Testing demo server sentence splitting")
-        # pylint: disable=attribute-defined-outside-init
-        self.seg = Synthesizer.get_segmenter("en")
+        # pylint: disable=attribute-defined-outside-init, protected-access
+        self.seg = Synthesizer._get_segmenter("en")
         sis = Synthesizer.split_into_sentences
         assert sis(self, "Hello. Two sentences") == ["Hello.", "Two sentences"]
         assert sis(self, "He went to meet the adviser from Scott, Waltman & Co. next morning.") == [