diff --git a/matcha/data/text_mel_datamodule.py b/matcha/data/text_mel_datamodule.py
index e10dfcb..48f8266 100644
--- a/matcha/data/text_mel_datamodule.py
+++ b/matcha/data/text_mel_datamodule.py
@@ -234,9 +234,9 @@ class TextMelBatchCollate:
 
     def __call__(self, batch):
         B = len(batch)
-        y_max_length = max([item["y"].shape[-1] for item in batch])
+        y_max_length = max([item["y"].shape[-1] for item in batch])  # pylint: disable=consider-using-generator
         y_max_length = fix_len_compatibility(y_max_length)
-        x_max_length = max([item["x"].shape[-1] for item in batch])
+        x_max_length = max([item["x"].shape[-1] for item in batch])  # pylint: disable=consider-using-generator
         n_feats = batch[0]["y"].shape[-2]
 
         y = torch.zeros((B, n_feats, y_max_length), dtype=torch.float32)
diff --git a/matcha/hifigan/denoiser.py b/matcha/hifigan/denoiser.py
index 9fd3331..452be6a 100644
--- a/matcha/hifigan/denoiser.py
+++ b/matcha/hifigan/denoiser.py
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 import torch
 
 
+class ModeException(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
 class Denoiser(torch.nn.Module):
     """Removes model bias from audio produced with waveglow"""
 
@@ -20,7 +24,7 @@ class Denoiser(torch.nn.Module):
         elif mode == "normal":
             mel_input = torch.randn((1, 80, 88), dtype=dtype, device=device)
         else:
-            raise Exception(f"Mode {mode} if not supported")
+            raise ModeException(f"Mode {mode} if not supported")
 
         def stft_fn(audio, n_fft, hop_length, win_length, window):
             spec = torch.stft(
diff --git a/matcha/hifigan/meldataset.py b/matcha/hifigan/meldataset.py
index 8b43ea7..d1b3a90 100644
--- a/matcha/hifigan/meldataset.py
+++ b/matcha/hifigan/meldataset.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def mel_spectrogram(y, n_fft, num_mels, sampling_rate, hop_size, win_size, fmin,
     if torch.max(y) > 1.0:
         print("max value is ", torch.max(y))
 
-    global mel_basis, hann_window  # pylint: disable=global-statement
+    global mel_basis, hann_window  # pylint: disable=global-statement,global-variable-not-assigned
     if fmax not in mel_basis:
         mel = librosa_mel_fn(sampling_rate, n_fft, num_mels, fmin, fmax)
         mel_basis[str(fmax) + "_" + str(y.device)] = torch.from_numpy(mel).float().to(y.device)
diff --git a/matcha/hifigan/models.py b/matcha/hifigan/models.py
index d209d9a..57305ef 100644
--- a/matcha/hifigan/models.py
+++ b/matcha/hifigan/models.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """ from https://github.com/jik876/hifi-gan """
 
 import torch
-import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn as nn  # pylint: disable=consider-using-from-import
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 from torch.nn import AvgPool1d, Conv1d, Conv2d, ConvTranspose1d
 from torch.nn.utils import remove_weight_norm, spectral_norm, weight_norm
diff --git a/matcha/models/components/decoder.py b/matcha/models/components/decoder.py
index 1137cd7..504f88b 100644
--- a/matcha/models/components/decoder.py
+++ b/matcha/models/components/decoder.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import math
 from typing import Optional
 
 import torch
-import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn as nn  # pylint: disable=consider-using-from-import
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 from conformer import ConformerBlock
 from diffusers.models.activations import get_activation
diff --git a/matcha/models/components/text_encoder.py b/matcha/models/components/text_encoder.py
index a388d05..66e7164 100644
--- a/matcha/models/components/text_encoder.py
+++ b/matcha/models/components/text_encoder.py
@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 import math
 
 import torch
-import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn as nn  # pylint: disable=consider-using-from-import
 from einops import rearrange
 
-import matcha.utils as utils
+import matcha.utils as utils  # pylint: disable=consider-using-from-import
 from matcha.utils.model import sequence_mask
 
 log = utils.get_pylogger(__name__)
diff --git a/matcha/models/components/transformer.py b/matcha/models/components/transformer.py
index dd1afa3..4d604f5 100644
--- a/matcha/models/components/transformer.py
+++ b/matcha/models/components/transformer.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
 
 import torch
-import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn as nn  # pylint: disable=consider-using-from-import
 from diffusers.models.attention import (
     GEGLU,
     GELU,
diff --git a/matcha/models/matcha_tts.py b/matcha/models/matcha_tts.py
index 07f95ad..092fa27 100644
--- a/matcha/models/matcha_tts.py
+++ b/matcha/models/matcha_tts.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import random
 
 import torch
 
-import matcha.utils.monotonic_align as monotonic_align
+import matcha.utils.monotonic_align as monotonic_align  # pylint: disable=consider-using-from-import
 from matcha import utils
 from matcha.models.baselightningmodule import BaseLightningClass
 from matcha.models.components.flow_matching import CFM
diff --git a/matcha/text/__init__.py b/matcha/text/__init__.py
index 8c75d6b..50d7b90 100644
--- a/matcha/text/__init__.py
+++ b/matcha/text/__init__.py
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ _symbol_to_id = {s: i for i, s in enumerate(symbols)}
 _id_to_symbol = {i: s for i, s in enumerate(symbols)}  # pylint: disable=unnecessary-comprehension
 
 
+class UnknownCleanerException(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
 def text_to_sequence(text, cleaner_names):
     """Converts a string of text to a sequence of IDs corresponding to the symbols in the text.
     Args:
@@ -48,6 +52,6 @@ def _clean_text(text, cleaner_names):
     for name in cleaner_names:
         cleaner = getattr(cleaners, name)
         if not cleaner:
-            raise Exception("Unknown cleaner: %s" % name)
+            raise UnknownCleanerException(f"Unknown cleaner: {name}")
         text = cleaner(text)
     return text
diff --git a/matcha/text/cleaners.py b/matcha/text/cleaners.py
index 788776b..74cd1a2 100644
--- a/matcha/text/cleaners.py
+++ b/matcha/text/cleaners.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ _brackets_re = re.compile(r"[\[\]\(\)\{\}]")
 
 # List of (regular expression, replacement) pairs for abbreviations:
 _abbreviations = [
-    (re.compile("\\b%s\\." % x[0], re.IGNORECASE), x[1])
+    (re.compile(f"\\b{x[0]}\\.", re.IGNORECASE), x[1])
     for x in [
         ("mrs", "misess"),
         ("mr", "mister"),
diff --git a/matcha/utils/audio.py b/matcha/utils/audio.py
index 0bcd74d..d257f0d 100644
--- a/matcha/utils/audio.py
+++ b/matcha/utils/audio.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def mel_spectrogram(y, n_fft, num_mels, sampling_rate, hop_size, win_size, fmin,
     if torch.max(y) > 1.0:
         print("max value is ", torch.max(y))
 
-    global mel_basis, hann_window  # pylint: disable=global-statement
+    global mel_basis, hann_window  # pylint: disable=global-statement,global-variable-not-assigned
     if f"{str(fmax)}_{str(y.device)}" not in mel_basis:
         mel = librosa_mel_fn(sr=sampling_rate, n_fft=n_fft, n_mels=num_mels, fmin=fmin, fmax=fmax)
         mel_basis[str(fmax) + "_" + str(y.device)] = torch.from_numpy(mel).float().to(y.device)
diff --git a/matcha/utils/generate_data_statistics.py b/matcha/utils/generate_data_statistics.py
index 49ed3c1..305d806 100644
--- a/matcha/utils/generate_data_statistics.py
+++ b/matcha/utils/generate_data_statistics.py
@@ -102,10 +102,8 @@ def main():
     log.info("Dataloader loaded! Now computing stats...")
     params = compute_data_statistics(data_loader, cfg["n_feats"])
     print(params)
-    json.dump(
-        params,
-        open(output_file, "w"),
-    )
+    with open(output_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as dumpfile:
+        json.dump(params, dumpfile)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/matcha/utils/rich_utils.py b/matcha/utils/rich_utils.py
index f602f6e..1f1d6fe 100644
--- a/matcha/utils/rich_utils.py
+++ b/matcha/utils/rich_utils.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def print_config_tree(
 
     # save config tree to file
     if save_to_file:
-        with open(Path(cfg.paths.output_dir, "config_tree.log"), "w") as file:
+        with open(Path(cfg.paths.output_dir, "config_tree.log"), "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
             rich.print(tree, file=file)
 
 
@@ -97,5 +97,5 @@ def enforce_tags(cfg: DictConfig, save_to_file: bool = False) -> None:
         log.info(f"Tags: {cfg.tags}")
 
     if save_to_file:
-        with open(Path(cfg.paths.output_dir, "tags.log"), "w") as file:
+        with open(Path(cfg.paths.output_dir, "tags.log"), "w", encoding="utf-8") as file:
             rich.print(cfg.tags, file=file)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a49c2cc..5375723 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,9 +16,16 @@ with open("README.md", encoding="utf-8") as readme_file:
     README = readme_file.read()
 
 cwd = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
-with open(os.path.join(cwd, "matcha", "VERSION")) as fin:
+with open(os.path.join(cwd, "matcha", "VERSION"), encoding="utf-8") as fin:
     version = fin.read().strip()
 
+
+def get_requires():
+    requirements = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "requirements.txt")
+    with open(requirements, encoding="utf-8") as reqfile:
+        return [str(r).strip() for r in reqfile]
+
+
 setup(
     name="matcha-tts",
     version=version,
@@ -28,7 +35,7 @@ setup(
     author="Shivam Mehta",
     author_email="shivam.mehta25@gmail.com",
     url="https://shivammehta25.github.io/Matcha-TTS",
-    install_requires=[str(r) for r in open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "requirements.txt"))],
+    install_requires=get_requires(),
     include_dirs=[numpy.get_include()],
     include_package_data=True,
     packages=find_packages(exclude=["tests", "tests/*", "examples", "examples/*"]),