src/transformers/models/whisper/tokenization_whisper.py/WhisperTokenizer/_tokenize
class WhisperTokenizer:    def _tokenize(self, text):
        """Tokenize a string."""
        bpe_tokens = []
        for token in re.findall(self.pat, text):
            token = "".join(
                self.byte_encoder[b] for b in token.encode("utf-8")
            )  # Maps all our bytes to unicode strings, avoiding control tokens of the BPE (spaces in our case)
            bpe_tokens.extend(bpe_token for bpe_token in self.bpe(token).split(" "))
        return bpe_tokens