</span> <span class="n">text</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">**</span><span class="n">kwargs</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">-&gt;</span> <span class="n">Union</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="n">List</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">str</span><span class="p">]:</span>
        <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="sd">        Conduct grapheme to phoneme conversion</span>

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