in whisper/normalizers/basic.py [0:0]
def __call__(self, s: str):
s = s.lower()
s = re.sub(r"[<\[][^>\]]*[>\]]", "", s) # remove words between brackets
s = re.sub(r"\(([^)]+?)\)", "", s) # remove words between parenthesis
s = self.clean(s).lower()
if self.split_letters:
s = " ".join(regex.findall(r"\X", s, regex.U))
s = re.sub(
r"\s+", " ", s
) # replace any successive whitespace characters with a space
return s