diff --git a/TTS/tts/utils/text/cleaners.py b/TTS/tts/utils/text/cleaners.py
index 794a87c8..f829e4cc 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/utils/text/cleaners.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/utils/text/cleaners.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # TODO: pick the cleaner for languages dynamically
 
 import re
+from typing import Optional
 
 from anyascii import anyascii
 
@@ -44,8 +45,8 @@ def remove_aux_symbols(text):
     return text
 
 
-def replace_symbols(text, lang="en"):
-    """Replace symbols based on the lenguage tag.
+def replace_symbols(text, lang: Optional[str] = "en"):
+    """Replace symbols based on the language tag.
 
     Args:
       text:
@@ -122,7 +123,11 @@ def english_cleaners(text):
 
 
 def phoneme_cleaners(text):
-    """Pipeline for phonemes mode, including number and abbreviation expansion."""
+    """Pipeline for phonemes mode, including number and abbreviation expansion.
+
+    NB: This cleaner converts numbers into English words, for other languages
+    use multilingual_phoneme_cleaners().
+    """
     text = en_normalize_numbers(text)
     text = expand_abbreviations(text)
     text = replace_symbols(text)
@@ -131,6 +136,14 @@ def phoneme_cleaners(text):
     return text
 
 
+def multilingual_phoneme_cleaners(text):
+    """Pipeline for phonemes mode, including number and abbreviation expansion."""
+    text = replace_symbols(text, lang=None)
+    text = remove_aux_symbols(text)
+    text = collapse_whitespace(text)
+    return text
+
+
 def french_cleaners(text):
     """Pipeline for French text. There is no need to expand numbers, phonemizer already does that"""
     text = expand_abbreviations(text, lang="fr")
diff --git a/tests/text_tests/test_text_cleaners.py b/tests/text_tests/test_text_cleaners.py
index fcfa71e7..bf0c8d5d 100644
--- a/tests/text_tests/test_text_cleaners.py
+++ b/tests/text_tests/test_text_cleaners.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 
-from TTS.tts.utils.text.cleaners import english_cleaners, phoneme_cleaners
+from TTS.tts.utils.text.cleaners import english_cleaners, multilingual_phoneme_cleaners, phoneme_cleaners
 
 
 def test_time() -> None:
@@ -19,3 +19,8 @@ def test_currency() -> None:
 def test_expand_numbers() -> None:
     assert phoneme_cleaners("-1") == "minus one"
     assert phoneme_cleaners("1") == "one"
+
+
+def test_multilingual_phoneme_cleaners() -> None:
+    assert multilingual_phoneme_cleaners("(Hello)") == "Hello"
+    assert multilingual_phoneme_cleaners("1:") == "1,"