ValueError fix; reformat txt file input to stop blank tokens being passed to TTS engine

app.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ if st.button('Click to run!'):
         text, file_title = file_readers.read_epub(uploaded_file)
     elif file_ext == 'text/plain':
         file = uploaded_file.read()
-        text = file_readers.preprocess_text(file)
+        text = [file_readers.preprocess_text(file)]
     elif file_ext == 'application/pdf':
         text = file_readers.read_pdf(uploaded_file)
     else:

src/file_readers.py

@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@ def replace_symbols(text):
         '=': ' equals ',
         '≈': ' approximately equal to ',
         '*': ' times ',
-        'x': ' times ',
         '%': ' percent ',
         '/': ' divided by ',
         '#': ' number ',