diff --git a/TTS/tts/utils/text/punctuation.py b/TTS/tts/utils/text/punctuation.py
index 8d199cc5..e3e3649f 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/utils/text/punctuation.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/utils/text/punctuation.py
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ class PuncPosition(Enum):
     BEGIN = 0
     END = 1
     MIDDLE = 2
-    ALONE = 3
 
 
 class Punctuation:
@@ -92,7 +91,7 @@ class Punctuation:
             return [text], []
         # the text is only punctuations
         if len(matches) == 1 and matches[0].group() == text:
-            return [], [_PUNC_IDX(text, PuncPosition.ALONE)]
+            return [], [_PUNC_IDX(text, PuncPosition.BEGIN)]
         # build a punctuation map to be used later to restore punctuations
         puncs = []
         for match in matches:
@@ -147,9 +146,6 @@ class Punctuation:
         if current.position == PuncPosition.END:
             return [text[0] + current.punc] + cls._restore(text[1:], puncs[1:], num + 1)
 
-        if current.position == PuncPosition.ALONE:
-            return [current.mark] + cls._restore(text, puncs[1:], num + 1)
-
         # POSITION == MIDDLE
         if len(text) == 1:  # pragma: nocover
             # a corner case where the final part of an intermediate
diff --git a/tests/text_tests/test_punctuation.py b/tests/text_tests/test_punctuation.py
index 141c10e4..5841ee7c 100644
--- a/tests/text_tests/test_punctuation.py
+++ b/tests/text_tests/test_punctuation.py
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ class PunctuationTest(unittest.TestCase):
             ("This, is my text ... to be striped !! from text", "This is my text to be striped from text"),
             ("This, is my text ... to be striped  from text?", "This is my text to be striped  from text"),
             ("This, is my text to be striped from text", "This is my text to be striped from text"),
+            (".", ""),
+            (" . ", ""),
         ]
 
     def test_get_set_puncs(self):