text/symbols.py

""" from https://github.com/keithito/tacotron """

'''
Defines the set of symbols used in text input to the model.

The default is a set of ASCII characters that works well for English or text that has been run through Unidecode. For other data, you can modify _characters. See TRAINING_DATA.md for details. '''
from text import cmudict

_pad = '_' # in principle not used in tacotron2
_punctuation = '\'!,.?…· '
_letters = 'AÀÁBCÇDEÉÈFGHIÍÏJKLMNOÓÒPQRSTUÜÚVWXYZaàábcçdeéèfghiíïjklmnoóòpqrstuüúvwxyz'

# Prepend "@" to ARPAbet symbols to ensure uniqueness (some are the same as uppercase letters):
_arpabet = ['@' + s for s in cmudict.valid_symbols]

# Export all symbols:
symbols = [_pad] + list(_punctuation) + list(_letters) + _arpabet