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VietNormalizer: An Open-Source, Dependency-Free Python Library for Vietnamese Text Normalization in TTS and NLP Applications

Hung Vu Nguyen, Loan Do, Thanh Ngoc Nguyen, Ushik Shrestha Khwakhali, Thanh Pham, Vinh Do, Charlotte Nguyen, Hien Nguyen · Mar 4, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

We present VietNormalizer1, an open-source, zero-dependency Python library for Vietnamese text normalization targeting Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Vietnamese text normalization is a critical yet underserved preprocessing step: real-world Vietnamese text is densely populated with non-standard words (NSWs), including numbers, dates, times, currency amounts, percentages, acronyms, and foreign-language terms, all of which must be converted to fully pronounceable Vietnamese words before TTS synthesis or downstream language processing. Existing Vietnamese normalization tools either require heavy neural dependencies while covering only a narrow subset of NSW classes, or are embedded within larger NLP toolkits without standalone installability. VietNormalizer addresses these gaps through a unified, rule-based pipeline that: (1) converts arbitrary integers, decimals, and large numbers to Vietnamese words; (2) normalizes dates and times to their spoken Vietnamese forms; (3) handles VND and USD currency amounts; (4) expands percentages; (5) resolves acronyms via a customizable CSV dictionary; (6) transliterates non-Vietnamese loanwords and foreign terms to Vietnamese phonetic approximations; and (7) performs Unicode normalization and emoji/special-character removal. All regular expression patterns are pre-compiled at initialization, enabling high-throughput batch processing with minimal memory overhead and no GPU or external API dependency. The library is installable via pip install vietnormalizer, available on PyPI and GitHub at https://github.com/nghimestudio/vietnormalizer, and released under the MIT license. We discuss the design decisions, limitations of existing approaches, and the generalizability of the rule-based normalization paradigm to other low-resource tonal and agglutinative languages.

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Evidence snippet: We present VietNormalizer1, an open-source, zero-dependency Python library for Vietnamese text normalization targeting Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications.

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Evidence snippet: We present VietNormalizer1, an open-source, zero-dependency Python library for Vietnamese text normalization targeting Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications.

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Evidence snippet: We present VietNormalizer1, an open-source, zero-dependency Python library for Vietnamese text normalization targeting Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications.

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Research Brief

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We present VietNormalizer1, an open-source, zero-dependency Python library for Vietnamese text normalization targeting Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. HFEPX protocol signal is limited in abstract-level metadata, so treat it as adjacent context. Updated from current HFEPX corpus.

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  • We present VietNormalizer1, an open-source, zero-dependency Python library for Vietnamese text normalization targeting Text-to-Speech (TTS) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications.

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