diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/prepare.sh b/egs/librispeech/ASR/prepare.sh
index 8342d5212..8ce1eb478 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/prepare.sh
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/prepare.sh
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ fi
 if [ $stage -le 2 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge 2 ]; then
   log "Stage 2: Prepare musan manifest"
   # We assume that you have downloaded the musan corpus
-  # to data/musan
+  # to $dl_dir/musan
   mkdir -p data/manifests
   if [ ! -e data/manifests/.musan.done ]; then
     lhotse prepare musan $dl_dir/musan data/manifests
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/compute_fbank_musan.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/compute_fbank_musan.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..5833f2484
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/compute_fbank_musan.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../librispeech/ASR/local/compute_fbank_musan.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/compute_fbank_must_c.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/compute_fbank_must_c.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..84de099d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/compute_fbank_must_c.py
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2023  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang)
+
+"""
+This file computes fbank features of the MuST-C dataset.
+It looks for manifests in the directory "in_dir" and write
+generated features to "out_dir".
+"""
+import argparse
+import logging
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import torch
+from lhotse import (
+    CutSet,
+    Fbank,
+    FbankConfig,
+    FeatureSet,
+    LilcomChunkyWriter,
+    load_manifest,
+)
+
+from icefall.utils import str2bool
+
+# Torch's multithreaded behavior needs to be disabled or
+# it wastes a lot of CPU and slow things down.
+# Do this outside of main() in case it needs to take effect
+# even when we are not invoking the main (e.g. when spawning subprocesses).
+torch.set_num_threads(1)
+torch.set_num_interop_threads(1)
+
+
+def get_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--in-dir",
+        type=Path,
+        required=True,
+        help="Input manifest directory",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--out-dir",
+        type=Path,
+        required=True,
+        help="Output directory where generated fbank features are saved.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--tgt-lang",
+        type=str,
+        required=True,
+        help="Target language, e.g., zh, de, fr.",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-jobs",
+        type=int,
+        default=1,
+        help="Number of jobs for computing features",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--perturb-speed",
+        type=str2bool,
+        default=False,
+        help="""True to enable speed perturb with factors 0.9 and 1.1 on
+        the train subset. False (by default) to disable speed perturb.
+        """,
+    )
+
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def compute_fbank_must_c(
+    in_dir: Path,
+    out_dir: Path,
+    tgt_lang: str,
+    num_jobs: int,
+    perturb_speed: bool,
+):
+    out_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    extractor = Fbank(FbankConfig(num_mel_bins=80))
+
+    parts = ["dev", "tst-COMMON", "tst-HE", "train"]
+
+    prefix = "must_c"
+    suffix = "jsonl.gz"
+    for p in parts:
+        logging.info(f"Processing {p}")
+
+        cuts_path = f"{out_dir}/{prefix}_feats_en-{tgt_lang}_{p}"
+        if perturb_speed and p == "train":
+            cuts_path += "_sp"
+
+        cuts_path += ".jsonl.gz"
+
+        if Path(cuts_path).is_file():
+            logging.info(f"{cuts_path} exists - skipping")
+            continue
+
+        recordings_filename = in_dir / f"{prefix}_recordings_en-{tgt_lang}_{p}.jsonl.gz"
+        supervisions_filename = (
+            in_dir / f"{prefix}_supervisions_en-{tgt_lang}_{p}_norm_rm.jsonl.gz"
+        )
+        assert recordings_filename.is_file(), recordings_filename
+        assert supervisions_filename.is_file(), supervisions_filename
+        cut_set = CutSet.from_manifests(
+            recordings=load_manifest(recordings_filename),
+            supervisions=load_manifest(supervisions_filename),
+        )
+        if perturb_speed and p == "train":
+            logging.info("Speed perturbing for the train dataset")
+            cut_set = cut_set + cut_set.perturb_speed(0.9) + cut_set.perturb_speed(1.1)
+            storage_path = f"{out_dir}/{prefix}_feats_en-{tgt_lang}_{p}_sp"
+        else:
+            storage_path = f"{out_dir}/{prefix}_feats_en-{tgt_lang}_{p}"
+
+        cut_set = cut_set.compute_and_store_features(
+            extractor=extractor,
+            storage_path=storage_path,
+            num_jobs=num_jobs,
+            storage_type=LilcomChunkyWriter,
+        )
+
+        logging.info("About to split cuts into smaller chunks.")
+        cut_set = cut_set.trim_to_supervisions(
+            keep_overlapping=False, min_duration=None
+        )
+
+        logging.info(f"Saving to {cuts_path}")
+        cut_set.to_file(cuts_path)
+        logging.info(f"Saved to {cuts_path}")
+
+
+def main():
+    args = get_args()
+    formatter = "%(asctime)s %(levelname)s [%(filename)s:%(lineno)d] %(message)s"
+    logging.basicConfig(format=formatter, level=logging.INFO)
+
+    logging.info(vars(args))
+    assert args.in_dir.is_dir(), args.in_dir
+
+    compute_fbank_must_c(
+        in_dir=args.in_dir,
+        out_dir=args.out_dir,
+        tgt_lang=args.tgt_lang,
+        num_jobs=args.num_jobs,
+        perturb_speed=args.perturb_speed,
+    )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/get_text.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/get_text.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..558ab6de8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/get_text.py
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2023  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang)
+"""
+This file prints the text field of supervisions from cutset to the console
+"""
+
+import argparse
+
+from lhotse import load_manifest_lazy
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+def get_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "manifest",
+        type=Path,
+        help="Input manifest",
+    )
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def main():
+    args = get_args()
+    assert args.manifest.is_file(), args.manifest
+
+    cutset = load_manifest_lazy(args.manifest)
+    for c in cutset:
+        for sup in c.supervisions:
+            print(sup.text)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/get_words.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/get_words.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..a61f60860
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/get_words.py
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2023  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang)
+"""
+This file generates words.txt from the given transcript file.
+"""
+
+import argparse
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+
+def get_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "transcript",
+        type=Path,
+        help="Input transcript file",
+    )
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def main():
+    args = get_args()
+    assert args.transcript.is_file(), args.transcript
+
+    word_set = set()
+    with open(args.transcript) as f:
+        for line in f:
+            words = line.strip().split()
+            for w in words:
+                word_set.add(w)
+
+    # Note: reserved* should be kept in sync with ./local/prepare_lang_bpe.py
+    reserved1 = ["<eps>", "!SIL", "<SPOKEN_NOISE>", "<UNK>"]
+    reserved2 = ["#0", "<s>", "</s>"]
+
+    for w in reserved1 + reserved2:
+        assert w not in word_set, w
+
+    words = sorted(list(word_set))
+    words = reserved1 + words + reserved2
+
+    for i, w in enumerate(words):
+        print(w, i)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/normalize_punctuation.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/normalize_punctuation.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..efd47e091
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/normalize_punctuation.py
@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+# Copyright    2023  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang)
+import re
+
+
+def normalize_punctuation(s: str, lang: str) -> str:
+    """
+    This function implements
+    https://github.com/moses-smt/mosesdecoder/blob/master/scripts/tokenizer/normalize-punctuation.perl
+
+    Args:
+      s:
+        A string to be normalized.
+      lang:
+        The language to which `s` belongs
+    Returns:
+      Return a normalized string.
+    """
+    #  s/\r//g;
+    s = re.sub("\r", "", s)
+
+    # remove extra spaces
+    # s/\(/ \(/g;
+    s = re.sub("\(", " (", s)  # add a space before (
+
+    # s/\)/\) /g; s/ +/ /g;
+    s = re.sub("\)", ") ", s)  # add a space after )
+    s = re.sub(" +", " ", s)  # convert multiple spaces to one
+
+    # s/\) ([\.\!\:\?\;\,])/\)$1/g;
+    s = re.sub("\) ([\.\!\:\?\;\,])", r")\1", s)
+
+    # s/\( /\(/g;
+    s = re.sub("\( ", "(", s)  # remove space after (
+
+    # s/ \)/\)/g;
+    s = re.sub(" \)", ")", s)  # remove space before )
+
+    # s/(\d) \%/$1\%/g;
+    s = re.sub("(\d) \%", r"\1%", s)  # remove space between a digit and %
+
+    # s/ :/:/g;
+    s = re.sub(" :", ":", s)  # remove space before :
+
+    # s/ ;/;/g;
+    s = re.sub(" ;", ";", s)  # remove space before ;
+
+    # normalize unicode punctuation
+    # s/\`/\'/g;
+    s = re.sub("`", "'", s)  # replace ` with '
+
+    # s/\'\'/ \" /g;
+    s = re.sub("''", '"', s)  #  replace '' with "
+
+    # s/„/\"/g;
+    s = re.sub("„", '"', s)  #  replace „ with "
+
+    # s/“/\"/g;
+    s = re.sub("“", '"', s)  #  replace “ with "
+
+    # s/”/\"/g;
+    s = re.sub("”", '"', s)  #  replace ” with "
+
+    # s/–/-/g;
+    s = re.sub("–", "-", s)  #  replace – with -
+
+    # s/—/ - /g; s/ +/ /g;
+    s = re.sub("—", " - ", s)
+    s = re.sub(" +", " ", s)  # convert multiple spaces to one
+
+    # s/´/\'/g;
+    s = re.sub("´", "'", s)
+
+    # s/([a-z])‘([a-z])/$1\'$2/gi;
+    s = re.sub("([a-z])‘([a-z])", r"\1'\2", s, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+
+    # s/([a-z])’([a-z])/$1\'$2/gi;
+    s = re.sub("([a-z])’([a-z])", r"\1'\2", s, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+
+    # s/‘/\'/g;
+    s = re.sub("‘", "'", s)
+
+    # s/‚/\'/g;
+    s = re.sub("‚", "'", s)
+
+    # s/’/\"/g;
+    s = re.sub("’", '"', s)
+
+    # s/''/\"/g;
+    s = re.sub("''", '"', s)
+
+    # s/´´/\"/g;
+    s = re.sub("´´", '"', s)
+
+    # s/…/.../g;
+    s = re.sub("…", "...", s)
+
+    # French quotes
+
+    # s/ « / \"/g;
+    s = re.sub(" « ", ' "', s)
+
+    # s/« /\"/g;
+    s = re.sub("« ", '"', s)
+
+    # s/«/\"/g;
+    s = re.sub("«", '"', s)
+
+    # s/ » /\" /g;
+    s = re.sub(" » ", '" ', s)
+
+    # s/ »/\"/g;
+    s = re.sub(" »", '"', s)
+
+    # s/»/\"/g;
+    s = re.sub("»", '"', s)
+
+    # handle pseudo-spaces
+
+    # s/ \%/\%/g;
+    s = re.sub(" %", r"%", s)
+
+    # s/nº /nº /g;
+    s = re.sub("nº ", "nº ", s)
+
+    # s/ :/:/g;
+    s = re.sub(" :", ":", s)
+
+    # s/ ºC/ ºC/g;
+    s = re.sub(" ºC", " ºC", s)
+
+    # s/ cm/ cm/g;
+    s = re.sub(" cm", " cm", s)
+
+    # s/ \?/\?/g;
+    s = re.sub(" \?", "\?", s)
+
+    # s/ \!/\!/g;
+    s = re.sub(" \!", "\!", s)
+
+    # s/ ;/;/g;
+    s = re.sub(" ;", ";", s)
+
+    # s/, /, /g; s/ +/ /g;
+    s = re.sub(", ", ", ", s)
+    s = re.sub(" +", " ", s)
+
+    if lang == "en":
+        # English "quotation," followed by comma, style
+        # s/\"([,\.]+)/$1\"/g;
+        s = re.sub('"([,\.]+)', r'\1"', s)
+    elif lang in ("cs", "cz"):
+        # Czech is confused
+        pass
+    else:
+        # German/Spanish/French "quotation", followed by comma, style
+        # s/,\"/\",/g;
+        s = re.sub(',"', '",', s)
+
+        # s/(\.+)\"(\s*[^<])/\"$1$2/g; # don't fix period at end of sentence
+        s = re.sub('(\.+)"(\s*[^<])', r'"\1\2', s)
+
+    if lang in ("de", "es", "cz", "cs", "fr"):
+        # s/(\d) (\d)/$1,$2/g;
+        s = re.sub("(\d) (\d)", r"\1,\2", s)
+    else:
+        # s/(\d) (\d)/$1.$2/g;
+        s = re.sub("(\d) (\d)", r"\1.\2", s)
+
+    return s
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/prepare_lang.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/prepare_lang.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..747f2ab39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/prepare_lang.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../librispeech/ASR/local/prepare_lang.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/prepare_lang_bpe.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/prepare_lang_bpe.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..36b40e7fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/prepare_lang_bpe.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../librispeech/ASR/local/prepare_lang_bpe.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/preprocess_must_c.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/preprocess_must_c.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1ba282bf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/preprocess_must_c.py
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2023  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang)
+"""
+This script normalizes transcripts from supervisions.
+
+Usage:
+  ./local/preprocess_must_c.py \
+    --manifest-dir ./data/manifests/v1.0/ \
+    --tgt-lang de
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import logging
+import re
+from functools import partial
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from lhotse.recipes.utils import read_manifests_if_cached
+from normalize_punctuation import normalize_punctuation
+from remove_non_native_characters import remove_non_native_characters
+from remove_punctuation import remove_punctuation
+
+
+def get_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--manifest-dir",
+        type=Path,
+        required=True,
+        help="Manifest directory",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--tgt-lang",
+        type=str,
+        required=True,
+        help="Target language, e.g., zh, de, fr.",
+    )
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def preprocess_must_c(manifest_dir: Path, tgt_lang: str):
+    normalize_punctuation_lang = partial(normalize_punctuation, lang=tgt_lang)
+    remove_non_native_characters_lang = partial(
+        remove_non_native_characters, lang=tgt_lang
+    )
+
+    prefix = "must_c"
+    suffix = "jsonl.gz"
+    parts = ["dev", "tst-COMMON", "tst-HE", "train"]
+    for p in parts:
+        logging.info(f"Processing {p}")
+        name = f"en-{tgt_lang}_{p}"
+
+        # norm: normalization
+        # rm: remove punctuation
+        dst_name = manifest_dir / f"must_c_supervisions_{name}_norm_rm.jsonl.gz"
+        if dst_name.is_file():
+            logging.info(f"{dst_name} exists - skipping")
+            continue
+
+        manifests = read_manifests_if_cached(
+            dataset_parts=name,
+            output_dir=manifest_dir,
+            prefix=prefix,
+            suffix=suffix,
+            types=("supervisions",),
+        )
+        if name not in manifests:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Processing {p} failed.")
+
+        supervisions = manifests[name]["supervisions"]
+        supervisions = supervisions.transform_text(normalize_punctuation_lang)
+        supervisions = supervisions.transform_text(remove_punctuation)
+        supervisions = supervisions.transform_text(lambda x: x.lower())
+        supervisions = supervisions.transform_text(remove_non_native_characters_lang)
+        supervisions = supervisions.transform_text(lambda x: re.sub(" +", " ", x))
+
+        supervisions.to_file(dst_name)
+
+
+def main():
+    args = get_args()
+    formatter = "%(asctime)s %(levelname)s [%(filename)s:%(lineno)d] %(message)s"
+    logging.basicConfig(format=formatter, level=logging.INFO)
+
+    logging.info(vars(args))
+    assert args.manifest_dir.is_dir(), args.manifest_dir
+
+    preprocess_must_c(
+        manifest_dir=args.manifest_dir,
+        tgt_lang=args.tgt_lang,
+    )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/remove_non_native_characters.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/remove_non_native_characters.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..f61fbd16b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/remove_non_native_characters.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Copyright    2023  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang)
+
+import re
+
+
+def remove_non_native_characters(s: str, lang: str):
+    if lang == "de":
+        # ä -> ae
+        # ö -> oe
+        # ü -> ue
+        # ß -> ss
+
+        s = re.sub("ä", "ae", s)
+        s = re.sub("ö", "oe", s)
+        s = re.sub("ü", "ue", s)
+        s = re.sub("ß", "ss", s)
+        # keep only a-z and spaces
+        # note: ' is removed
+        s = re.sub(r"[^a-z\s]", "", s)
+
+    return s
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/remove_punctuation.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/remove_punctuation.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..723946ec3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/remove_punctuation.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Copyright    2023  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang)
+import re
+import string
+
+
+def remove_punctuation(s: str) -> str:
+    """
+    It implements https://github.com/espnet/espnet/blob/master/utils/remove_punctuation.pl
+    """
+
+    # Remove punctuation except apostrophe
+    # s/<space>/spacemark/g;  # for scoring
+    s = re.sub("<space>", "spacemark", s)
+
+    # s/'/apostrophe/g;
+    s = re.sub("'", "apostrophe", s)
+
+    # s/[[:punct:]]//g;
+    s = s.translate(str.maketrans("", "", string.punctuation))
+    # string punctuation returns the following string
+    # !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~
+    # See
+    # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/265960/best-way-to-strip-punctuation-from-a-string
+
+    # s/apostrophe/'/g;
+    s = re.sub("apostrophe", "'", s)
+
+    # s/spacemark/<space>/g;  # for scoring
+    s = re.sub("spacemark", "<space>", s)
+
+    # remove whitespace
+    # s/\s+/ /g;
+    s = re.sub("\s+", " ", s)
+
+    # s/^\s+//;
+    s = re.sub("^\s+", "", s)
+
+    # s/\s+$//;
+    s = re.sub("\s+$", "", s)
+
+    return s
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/test_normalize_punctuation.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/test_normalize_punctuation.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..9079858c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/test_normalize_punctuation.py
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2023  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang)
+
+from normalize_punctuation import normalize_punctuation
+
+
+def test_normalize_punctuation():
+    #  s/\r//g;
+    s = "a\r\nb\r\n"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert "\r" not in n
+    assert len(s) - 2 == len(n), (len(s), len(n))
+
+    # s/\(/ \(/g;
+    s = "(ab (c"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == " (ab (c", n
+
+    # s/\)/\) /g;
+    s = "a)b c)"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "a) b c) "
+
+    # s/ +/ /g;
+    s = "  a  b     c  d    "
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == " a b c d "
+
+    # s/\) ([\.\!\:\?\;\,])/\)$1/g;
+    for i in ".!:?;,":
+        s = f"a)  {i}"
+        n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+        assert n == f"a){i}"
+
+    # s/\( /\(/g;
+    s = "a(    b"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "a (b", n
+
+    # s/ \)/\)/g;
+    s = "ab    ) a"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "ab) a", n
+
+    # s/(\d) \%/$1\%/g;
+    s = "1   %a"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "1%a", n
+
+    # s/ :/:/g;
+    s = "a  :"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "a:", n
+
+    # s/ ;/;/g;
+    s = "a  ;"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "a;", n
+
+    # s/\`/\'/g;
+    s = "`a`"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "'a'", n
+
+    # s/\'\'/ \" /g;
+    s = "''a''"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == '"a"', n
+
+    # s/„/\"/g;
+    s = '„a"'
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == '"a"', n
+
+    # s/“/\"/g;
+    s = "“a„"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == '"a"', n
+
+    # s/”/\"/g;
+    s = "“a”"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == '"a"', n
+
+    # s/–/-/g;
+    s = "a–b"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "a-b", n
+
+    # s/—/ - /g; s/ +/ /g;
+    s = "a—b"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "a - b", n
+
+    # s/´/\'/g;
+    s = "a´b"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "a'b", n
+
+    # s/([a-z])‘([a-z])/$1\'$2/gi;
+    for i in "‘’":
+        s = f"a{i}B"
+        n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+        assert n == "a'B", n
+
+        s = f"A{i}B"
+        n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+        assert n == "A'B", n
+
+        s = f"A{i}b"
+        n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+        assert n == "A'b", n
+
+    # s/‘/\'/g;
+    # s/‚/\'/g;
+    for i in "‘‚":
+        s = f"a{i}b"
+        n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+        assert n == "a'b", n
+
+    # s/’/\"/g;
+    s = "’"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == '"', n
+
+    # s/''/\"/g;
+    s = "''"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == '"', n
+
+    # s/´´/\"/g;
+    s = "´´"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == '"', n
+
+    # s/…/.../g;
+    s = "…"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "...", n
+
+    # s/ « / \"/g;
+    s = "a « b"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == 'a "b', n
+
+    # s/« /\"/g;
+    s = "a « b"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == 'a "b', n
+
+    # s/«/\"/g;
+    s = "a«b"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == 'a"b', n
+
+    # s/ » /\" /g;
+    s = " » "
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == '" ', n
+
+    # s/ »/\"/g;
+    s = " »"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == '"', n
+
+    # s/»/\"/g;
+    s = "»"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == '"', n
+
+    # s/ \%/\%/g;
+    s = " %"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "%", n
+
+    # s/ :/:/g;
+    s = " :"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == ":", n
+
+    # s/(\d) (\d)/$1.$2/g;
+    s = "2 3"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="en")
+    assert n == "2.3", n
+
+    # s/(\d) (\d)/$1,$2/g;
+    s = "2 3"
+    n = normalize_punctuation(s, lang="de")
+    assert n == "2,3", n
+
+
+def main():
+    test_normalize_punctuation()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/test_remove_non_native_characters.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/test_remove_non_native_characters.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..ecf8569cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/test_remove_non_native_characters.py
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2023  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang)
+
+from remove_non_native_characters import remove_non_native_characters
+
+
+def test_remove_non_native_characters():
+    s = "Ich heiße xxx好的01 fangjun".lower()
+    n = remove_non_native_characters(s, lang="de")
+    assert n == "ich heisse xxx fangjun", n
+
+    s = "äÄ".lower()
+    n = remove_non_native_characters(s, lang="de")
+    assert n == "aeae", n
+
+    s = "öÖ".lower()
+    n = remove_non_native_characters(s, lang="de")
+    assert n == "oeoe", n
+
+    s = "üÜ".lower()
+    n = remove_non_native_characters(s, lang="de")
+    assert n == "ueue", n
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_remove_non_native_characters()
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/test_remove_punctuation.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/test_remove_punctuation.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..a4f318550
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/test_remove_punctuation.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+from remove_punctuation import remove_punctuation
+
+
+def test_remove_punctuation():
+    s = "a,b'c!#"
+    n = remove_punctuation(s)
+    assert n == "ab'c", n
+
+    s = "  ab  "  # remove leading and trailing spaces
+    n = remove_punctuation(s)
+    assert n == "ab", n
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_remove_punctuation()
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/train_bpe_model.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/train_bpe_model.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..6fad36421
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/train_bpe_model.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../librispeech/ASR/local/train_bpe_model.py
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diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/local/validate_bpe_lexicon.py b/egs/must_c/ST/local/validate_bpe_lexicon.py
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..721bb48e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/local/validate_bpe_lexicon.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../librispeech/ASR/local/validate_bpe_lexicon.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/prepare.sh b/egs/must_c/ST/prepare.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..d16bb3d0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/prepare.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# fix segmentation fault reported in https://github.com/k2-fsa/icefall/issues/674
+export PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python
+
+set -eou pipefail
+
+nj=10
+stage=0
+stop_stage=100
+
+version=v1.0
+tgt_lang=de
+dl_dir=$PWD/download
+
+must_c_dir=$dl_dir/must-c/$version/en-$tgt_lang/data
+
+# We assume dl_dir (download dir) contains the following
+# directories and files.
+#  - $dl_dir/must-c/$version/en-$tgt_lang/data/{dev,train,tst-COMMON,tst-HE}
+#
+# Please go to https://ict.fbk.eu/must-c-releases/
+# to download and untar the dataset if you have not already done this.
+
+#  - $dl_dir/musan
+#      This directory contains the following directories downloaded from
+#       http://www.openslr.org/17/
+#
+#     - music
+#     - noise
+#     - speech
+
+. shared/parse_options.sh || exit 1
+
+# vocab size for sentence piece models.
+# It will generate
+#  data/lang_bpe_${tgt_lang}_xxx
+#  data/lang_bpe_${tgt_lang}_yyy
+# if the array contains xxx, yyy
+vocab_sizes=(
+  # 5000
+  # 2000
+  # 1000
+  500
+)
+
+# All files generated by this script are saved in "data".
+# You can safely remove "data" and rerun this script to regenerate it.
+mkdir -p data
+
+log() {
+  # This function is from espnet
+  local fname=${BASH_SOURCE[1]##*/}
+  echo -e "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') (${fname}:${BASH_LINENO[0]}:${FUNCNAME[1]}) $*"
+}
+
+log "dl_dir: $dl_dir"
+
+if [ ! -d $must_c_dir ]; then
+  log "$must_c_dir does not exist"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+for d in dev train tst-COMMON tst-HE; do
+  if [ ! -d $must_c_dir/$d ]; then
+    log "$must_c_dir/$d does not exist!"
+    exit 1
+  fi
+done
+
+if [ $stage -le 0 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge 0 ]; then
+  log "Stage 0: Download musan"
+  if [ ! -d $dl_dir/musan ]; then
+    lhotse download musan $dl_dir
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ $stage -le 1 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge 1 ]; then
+  log "Stage 1: Prepare musan manifest"
+  # We assume that you have downloaded the musan corpus
+  # to $dl_dir/musan
+  mkdir -p data/manifests
+  if [ ! -e data/manifests/.musan.done ]; then
+    lhotse prepare musan $dl_dir/musan data/manifests
+    touch data/manifests/.musan.done
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ $stage -le 2 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge 2 ]; then
+  log "Stage 2: Prepare must-c $version manifest for target language $tgt_lang"
+  mkdir -p data/manifests/$version
+  if [ ! -e data/manifests/$version/.${tgt_lang}.manifests.done ]; then
+    lhotse prepare must-c \
+      -j $nj \
+      --tgt-lang $tgt_lang \
+      $dl_dir/must-c/$version/ \
+      data/manifests/$version/
+
+    touch data/manifests/$version/.${tgt_lang}.manifests.done
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ $stage -le 3 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge 3 ]; then
+  log "Stage 3: Text normalization for $version with target language $tgt_lang"
+  if [ ! -f ./data/manifests/$version/.$tgt_lang.norm.done ]; then
+    ./local/preprocess_must_c.py \
+      --manifest-dir ./data/manifests/$version/ \
+      --tgt-lang $tgt_lang
+    touch ./data/manifests/$version/.$tgt_lang.norm.done
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ $stage -le 4 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge 4 ]; then
+  log "Stage 4: Compute fbank for musan"
+  mkdir -p data/fbank
+  if [ ! -e data/fbank/.musan.done ]; then
+    ./local/compute_fbank_musan.py
+    touch data/fbank/.musan.done
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ $stage -le 5 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge 5 ]; then
+  log "Stage 5: Compute fbank for $version with target language $tgt_lang"
+  mkdir -p data/fbank/$version/
+  if [ ! -e data/fbank/$version/.$tgt_lang.done ]; then
+    ./local/compute_fbank_must_c.py \
+      --in-dir ./data/manifests/$version/ \
+      --out-dir ./data/fbank/$version/ \
+      --tgt-lang $tgt_lang \
+      --num-jobs $nj
+
+    ./local/compute_fbank_must_c.py \
+      --in-dir ./data/manifests/$version/ \
+      --out-dir ./data/fbank/$version/ \
+      --tgt-lang $tgt_lang \
+      --num-jobs $nj \
+      --perturb-speed 1
+
+    touch data/fbank/$version/.$tgt_lang.done
+  fi
+fi
+
+if [ $stage -le 6 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge 6 ]; then
+  log "Stage 6: Prepare BPE based lang for $version with target language $tgt_lang"
+
+  for vocab_size in ${vocab_sizes[@]}; do
+    lang_dir=data/lang_bpe_${vocab_size}/$version/$tgt_lang/
+    mkdir -p $lang_dir
+    if [ ! -f $lang_dir/transcript_words.txt ]; then
+      ./local/get_text.py ./data/fbank/$version/must_c_feats_en-${tgt_lang}_train.jsonl.gz > $lang_dir/transcript_words.txt
+    fi
+
+    if [ ! -f $lang_dir/words.txt ]; then
+      ./local/get_words.py $lang_dir/transcript_words.txt > $lang_dir/words.txt
+    fi
+
+    if [ ! -f $lang_dir/bpe.model ]; then
+      ./local/train_bpe_model.py \
+        --lang-dir $lang_dir \
+        --vocab-size $vocab_size \
+        --transcript $lang_dir/transcript_words.txt
+    fi
+
+    if [ ! -f $lang_dir/L_disambig.pt ]; then
+      ./local/prepare_lang_bpe.py --lang-dir $lang_dir
+
+      log "Validating $lang_dir/lexicon.txt"
+      ./local/validate_bpe_lexicon.py \
+        --lexicon $lang_dir/lexicon.txt \
+        --bpe-model $lang_dir/bpe.model
+    fi
+  done
+fi
diff --git a/egs/must_c/ST/shared b/egs/must_c/ST/shared
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..4cbd91a7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/egs/must_c/ST/shared
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../icefall/shared
\ No newline at end of file