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+from tts.text.pipeline.english_pipeline_v1 import EnglishPipelineV1
+
+
+class TestEnglishPipelineV1:
+
+    def test_no_input(self):
+        pipeline = EnglishPipelineV1()
+        output = pipeline.user_input_to_sequence("")
+        assert output == []
+
+    def test_whitespace(self):
+        pipeline = EnglishPipelineV1()
+        output = pipeline.user_input_to_sequence("   \n    \t ")
+        assert output == []
+
+    def test_single_word(self):
+        pipeline = EnglishPipelineV1()
+        output = pipeline.user_input_to_sequence("hello")
+        assert output == [106, 73, 117, 123] # NB: Arpabet encoded
+
+    def test_two_words(self):
+        pipeline = EnglishPipelineV1()
+        output = pipeline.user_input_to_sequence("hello hello")
+        assert output == [106, 73, 117, 123, 11, 106, 73, 117, 123]
+
+    
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