diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/local/prepare_vox_text.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/local/prepare_vox_text.py
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+import os
+import sys
+import re
+
+metafile = sys.argv[1]
+outdir = "texts"
+save_dir = "/".join(metafile.split('/')[:-1])
+save_dir = os.path.join(save_dir, outdir)
+
+if not os.path.exists(save_dir):
+    os.makedirs(save_dir)
+
+with open(metafile, 'r') as f:
+    strings = f.readlines()
+
+for string in strings:
+
+    # Split the string into parts
+    parts = string.split("|")
+
+    # Assign the parts to variables
+    filename = parts[0]
+    text1 = parts[1]
+    try:
+        text2 = parts[2]
+    except:
+        text2 = text1
+    
+    text2 = text2.upper()
+    text2 = re.sub(r"[^A-Z ']", "", text2)
+    
+    # Create a new text file with the filename and write text2 to it
+    filename = os.path.join(save_dir, filename)
+    with open(f"{filename}.txt", "w") as file:
+        file.write(text2)
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