diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/local/convert_transcript_words_to_bpe_ids.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/local/convert_transcript_words_to_bpe_ids.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Copyright    2022 Xiaomi Corporation  (Author: Mingshuang Luo)
+"""
+Convert a transcript based on words to a list of BPE ids.
+
+For example, if we use 2 as the encoding id of <unk>:
+
+texts = ['this is a <unk> day']
+spm_ids = [[38, 33, 6, 2, 316]]
+
+texts = ['<unk> this is a sunny day']
+spm_ids = [[2, 38, 33, 6, 118, 11, 11, 21, 316]]
+
+texts = ['<unk>']
+spm_ids = [[2]]
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+from typing import List
+
+import sentencepiece as spm
+
+
+def get_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--texts", type=List[str], help="The input transcripts list.")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--bpe-model",
+        type=str,
+        default="data/lang_bpe_500/bpe.model",
+        help="Path to the BPE model",
+    )
+
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def convert_texts_into_ids(
+    texts: List[str],
+    unk_id: int,
+    sp: spm.SentencePieceProcessor,
+) -> List[List[int]]:
+    """
+    Args:
+      texts:
+        A string list of transcripts, such as ['Today is Monday', 'It's sunny'].
+      unk_id:
+        A number id for the token '<unk>'.
+    Returns:
+      Return an integer list of bpe ids.
+    """
+    y = []
+    for text in texts:
+        y_ids = []
+        if "<unk>" in text:
+            text_segments = text.split("<unk>")
+            id_segments = sp.encode(text_segments, out_type=int)
+            for i in range(len(id_segments)):
+                if i != len(id_segments) - 1:
+                    y_ids.extend(id_segments[i] + [unk_id])
+                else:
+                    y_ids.extend(id_segments[i])
+        else:
+            y_ids = sp.encode(text, out_type=int)
+        y.append(y_ids)
+
+    return y
+
+
+def main():
+    args = get_args()
+    texts = args.texts
+    bpe_model = args.bpe_model
+
+    sp = spm.SentencePieceProcessor()
+    sp.load(bpe_model)
+    unk_id = sp.piece_to_id("<unk>")
+
+    y = convert_texts_into_ids(
+        texts=texts,
+        unk_id=unk_id,
+        sp=sp,
+    )
+    logging.info(f"The input texts: {texts}")
+    logging.info(f"The encoding ids: {y}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()