src/transformers/models/whisper/english_normalizer.py/remove_symbols
def remove_symbols(s: str):
    """
    Replace any other markers, symbols, punctuations with a space, keeping diacritics
    """
    return "".join(" " if unicodedata.category(c)[0] in "MSP" else c for c in unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", s))