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+import re
+from itertools import groupby
+from typing import Dict, List
+
+
+class Tokenizer:
+    _CHARS_TO_IGNORE = "[\,\?\.\!\-\;\:\[\]\(\)'\`\"\“\”\’\\n]"
+
+    def __init__(self, transcripts: List[str] = None, vocab_dict: Dict = None, chars_to_ignore: str = None):
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self.chars_to_ignore = chars_to_ignore if chars_to_ignore else self._CHARS_TO_IGNORE
+        if transcripts:
+            _, vocab_dict = self.extract_vocab(transcripts)
+        self.encode_dict = vocab_dict
+        self.decode_dict = {v: k for k, v in vocab_dict.items()}
+        assert len(self.encode_dict) == len(self.decode_dict)
+
+        self.unk_token = "[UNK]"
+        self.pad_token = "[PAD]"
+        self.word_del_token = "|"
+
+        if self.unk_token not in self.encode_dict:
+            self.encode_dict[self.unk_token] = len(self.encode_dict)
+            self.decode_dict[len(self.decode_dict)] = self.unk_token
+
+        if self.pad_token not in self.encode_dict:
+            self.encode_dict[self.pad_token] = len(self.encode_dict)
+            self.decode_dict[len(self.decode_dict)] = self.pad_token
+
+        self.unk_token_id = self.encode_dict[self.unk_token]
+        self.pad_token_id = self.encode_dict[self.pad_token]
+
+    @property
+    def vocab_size(self):
+        return len(self.encode_dict)
+
+    @property
+    def vocab_dict(self):
+        return self.encode_dict
+
+    def encode(self, text: str):
+        """Convert input text to sequence of ids."""
+        text = text.lower()
+        text = self.remove_special_characters(text)
+        text = text.replace(" ", self.word_del_token)
+        ids = [self.encode_dict.get(char, self.unk_token) for char in text]
+        return ids
+
+    def decode(self, token_ids: List[int]):
+        """Convert input sequence of ids to text"""
+        tokens = [self.decode_dict.get(ti, self.unk_token) for ti in token_ids]
+        return tokens
+
+    def tokens_to_string(self, tokens, group_tokens=True):
+        # group same tokens into non-repeating tokens in CTC style decoding
+        if group_tokens:
+            tokens = [token_group[0] for token_group in groupby(tokens)]
+
+        # filter self.pad_token which is used as CTC-blank token
+        filtered_tokens = list(filter(lambda token: token != self.pad_token, tokens))
+
+        # replace delimiter token
+        string = "".join([" " if token == self.word_del_token else token for token in filtered_tokens]).strip()
+        return string
+
+    def remove_special_characters(self, text):
+        text = re.sub(self.chars_to_ignore, "", text).lower()
+        return text
+
+    def extract_vocab(self, texts: List[str]):
+        vocab = set()
+        # for waveform, sr, _, text in dataset:
+        for text in texts:
+            text = text.lower()
+            text = self.remove_special_characters(text)
+            vocab.update(text)
+        vocab = list(vocab)
+        vocab_list = list(set(vocab))
+        vocab_dict = {v: k for k, v in enumerate(vocab_list)}
+        vocab_dict["|"] = vocab_dict[" "]
+        del vocab_dict[" "]
+        vocab_dict["[UNK]"] = len(vocab_dict)
+        vocab_dict["[PAD]"] = len(vocab_dict)
+        return vocab, vocab_dict