diff --git a/bark.cpp b/bark.cpp
index 7f23dcb..f4bd34d 100644
--- a/bark.cpp
+++ b/bark.cpp
@@ -1227,6 +1227,38 @@ bark_vocab::id gpt_sample(
     return gpt_multinomial_sample(logits, rng, temp, eos_p);
 }
 
+bark_sequence bark_tokenize_input(
+        const char * text,
+        const bark_vocab & vocab,
+        const int32_t block_size) {
+    int32_t max_ctx_size = std::min(block_size, 256);
+
+    int32_t n_tokens;
+    bark_sequence tokens(max_ctx_size);
+
+    bert_tokenize(vocab, text, tokens.data(), &n_tokens, max_ctx_size);
+    for (int i = 0; i < (int) tokens.size(); i++)
+        tokens[i] += TEXT_ENCODING_OFFSET;
+
+    if (n_tokens < max_ctx_size) {
+        for (int i = n_tokens; i < max_ctx_size; i++)
+            tokens[i] = TEXT_PAD_TOKEN;
+    } else if (n_tokens > max_ctx_size) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: input sequence is too long (%d > 256), truncating sequence", __func__, n_tokens);
+    }
+
+    tokens.resize(max_ctx_size);
+
+    // semantic history
+    for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++)
+        tokens.push_back(SEMANTIC_PAD_TOKEN);
+    tokens.push_back(SEMANTIC_INFER_TOKEN);
+
+    assert(tokens.size() == 256 + 256 + 1);
+
+    return tokens;
+}
+
 bark_sequence bark_forward_text_encoder(
     const bark_sequence & tokens,
     const gpt_model model,
@@ -1481,34 +1513,9 @@ bool bark_generate_audio(
 
     std::mt19937 rng(seed);
 
-    // tokenize text (bert tokenizer)
-    {
-        // max bark length: 256
-        int32_t max_ctx_size = std::min(model.text_model.hparams.block_size, 256);
-        int32_t n_tokens;
-        tokens.resize(max_ctx_size);
-
-        bert_tokenize(vocab, text, tokens.data(), &n_tokens, max_ctx_size);
-        for (int i = 0; i < (int) tokens.size(); i++)
-            tokens[i] += TEXT_ENCODING_OFFSET;
-
-        if (n_tokens < max_ctx_size) {
-            for (int i = n_tokens; i < max_ctx_size; i++)
-                tokens[i] = TEXT_PAD_TOKEN;
-        } else if (n_tokens > max_ctx_size) {
-            fprintf(stderr, "%s: input sequence is too long (%d > 256), truncating sequence", __func__, n_tokens);
-        }
-
-        tokens.resize(max_ctx_size);
-
-        // semantic history
-        for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++)
-            tokens.push_back(SEMANTIC_PAD_TOKEN);
-
-        tokens.push_back(SEMANTIC_INFER_TOKEN);
-
-        assert(tokens.size() == 256 + 256 + 1);
-    }
+    // bert tokenizer
+    const int32_t block_size = model.text_model.hparams.block_size;
+    bark_sequence tokens = bark_tokenize_input(text, vocab, block_size);
 
     printf("%s: prompt: '%s'\n", __func__, text);
     printf("%s: number of tokens in prompt = %zu, first 8 tokens: ", __func__, tokens.size());