diff --git a/tts/text/phonetization/cmudict.py b/tts/text/phonetization/cmudict.py
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+""" 
+Contents of this file are mostly from https://github.com/keithito/tacotron
+"""
+
+import re
+
+# Relative to TTS codebase root
+# This does not include any CMUDict extensions or alternatives (eg. for other languages).
+DEFAULT_CMUDICT_PATH = 'dictionaries/cmudict-0.7b'
+
+valid_symbols = [
+  'AA', 'AA0', 'AA1', 'AA2', 'AE', 'AE0', 'AE1', 'AE2', 'AH', 'AH0', 'AH1', 'AH2',
+  'AO', 'AO0', 'AO1', 'AO2', 'AW', 'AW0', 'AW1', 'AW2', 'AY', 'AY0', 'AY1', 'AY2',
+  'B', 'CH', 'D', 'DH', 'EH', 'EH0', 'EH1', 'EH2', 'ER', 'ER0', 'ER1', 'ER2', 'EY',
+  'EY0', 'EY1', 'EY2', 'F', 'G', 'HH', 'IH', 'IH0', 'IH1', 'IH2', 'IY', 'IY0', 'IY1',
+  'IY2', 'JH', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'NG', 'OW', 'OW0', 'OW1', 'OW2', 'OY', 'OY0',
+  'OY1', 'OY2', 'P', 'R', 'S', 'SH', 'T', 'TH', 'UH', 'UH0', 'UH1', 'UH2', 'UW',
+  'UW0', 'UW1', 'UW2', 'V', 'W', 'Y', 'Z', 'ZH'
+]
+
+_valid_symbol_set = set(valid_symbols)
+
+
+class CMUDict:
+  '''Thin wrapper around CMUDict data. http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict'''
+  def __init__(self, file_or_path, keep_ambiguous=True):
+    if isinstance(file_or_path, str):
+      with open(file_or_path, encoding='latin-1') as f:
+        entries = _parse_cmudict(f)
+    else:
+      entries = _parse_cmudict(file_or_path)
+    if not keep_ambiguous:
+      entries = {word: pron for word, pron in entries.items() if len(pron) == 1}
+    self._entries = entries
+
+
+  def __len__(self):
+    return len(self._entries)
+
+
+  def lookup(self, word):
+    '''Returns list of ARPAbet pronunciations of the given word.'''
+    return self._entries.get(word.upper())
+
+
+
+_alt_re = re.compile(r'\([0-9]+\)')
+
+
+def _parse_cmudict(file):
+  cmudict = {}
+  for line in file:
+    if len(line) and (line[0] >= 'A' and line[0] <= 'Z' or line[0] == "'"):
+      parts = line.split('  ')
+      word = re.sub(_alt_re, '', parts[0])
+      pronunciation = _get_pronunciation(parts[1])
+      if pronunciation:
+        if word in cmudict:
+          cmudict[word].append(pronunciation)
+        else:
+          cmudict[word] = [pronunciation]
+  return cmudict
+
+
+def _get_pronunciation(s):
+  parts = s.strip().split(' ')
+  for part in parts:
+    if part not in _valid_symbol_set:
+      return None
+  return ' '.join(parts)
diff --git a/tts/text/phonetization/test_cmudict.py b/tts/text/phonetization/test_cmudict.py
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+from tts.text.phonetization.cmudict import CMUDict
+from tts.text.phonetization.cmudict import DEFAULT_CMUDICT_PATH
+
+
+class TestCmuDict:
+
+    def test_lookup_success(self):
+        cmudict = CMUDict(DEFAULT_CMUDICT_PATH)
+        arpabet_sequence = cmudict.lookup('word')
+        assert arpabet_sequence == ['W ER1 D'] # TODO: Split the phonemes!
+
+    def test_lookup_failure(self):
+        cmudict = CMUDict(DEFAULT_CMUDICT_PATH)
+        arpabet_sequence = cmudict.lookup('fakeword')
+        assert arpabet_sequence == None