diff --git a/gradio_app.py b/gradio_app.py
index 41f64a5..8d2dae6 100644
--- a/gradio_app.py
+++ b/gradio_app.py
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def load_models(whisper_backend_name, whisper_model_name, alignment_model_name,
             transcribe_model = WhisperxModel(whisper_model_name, align_model)
 
     voicecraft_name = f"{voicecraft_model_name}.pth"
-    model = voicecraft.VoiceCraftHF.from_pretrained(f"pyp1/VoiceCraft_{voicecraft_name.replace('.pth', '')}")
+    model = voicecraft.VoiceCraft.from_pretrained(f"pyp1/VoiceCraft_{voicecraft_name.replace('.pth', '')}")
     phn2num = model.args.phn2num
     config = model.args
     model.to(device)
diff --git a/inference_speech_editing.ipynb b/inference_speech_editing.ipynb
index 4502966..022e3ba 100644
--- a/inference_speech_editing.ipynb
+++ b/inference_speech_editing.ipynb
@@ -203,8 +203,8 @@
     "voicecraft_name=\"giga330M.pth\" # or gigaHalfLibri330M_TTSEnhanced_max16s.pth, giga830M.pth\n",
     "\n",
     "# the new way of loading the model, with huggingface, recommended\n",
-    "from models.voicecraft import VoiceCraftHF\n",
-    "model = VoiceCraftHF.from_pretrained(f\"pyp1/VoiceCraft_{voicecraft_name.replace('.pth', '')}\")\n",
+    "from models import voicecraft\n",
+    "model = voicecraft.VoiceCraft.from_pretrained(f\"pyp1/VoiceCraft_{voicecraft_name.replace('.pth', '')}\")\n",
     "phn2num = model.args.phn2num\n",
     "config = vars(model.args)\n",
     "model.to(device)\n",
diff --git a/inference_tts.ipynb b/inference_tts.ipynb
index f9a1862..e9712ca 100644
--- a/inference_tts.ipynb
+++ b/inference_tts.ipynb
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@
     "voicecraft_name=\"giga330M.pth\" # or gigaHalfLibri330M_TTSEnhanced_max16s.pth, giga830M.pth\n",
     "\n",
     "# the new way of loading the model, with huggingface, recommended\n",
-    "from models.voicecraft import VoiceCraftHF\n",
-    "model = VoiceCraftHF.from_pretrained(f\"pyp1/VoiceCraft_{voicecraft_name.replace('.pth', '')}\")\n",
+    "from models import voicecraft\n",
+    "model = voicecraft.VoiceCraft.from_pretrained(f\"pyp1/VoiceCraft_{voicecraft_name.replace('.pth', '')}\")\n",
     "phn2num = model.args.phn2num\n",
     "config = vars(model.args)\n",
     "model.to(device)\n",
diff --git a/models/voicecraft.py b/models/voicecraft.py
index 9bb3393..508e55f 100644
--- a/models/voicecraft.py
+++ b/models/voicecraft.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import random
 import numpy as np
 import logging
 import argparse, copy
+from typing import Dict, Optional
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 import torch.nn.functional as F
@@ -86,9 +87,31 @@ def topk_sampling(logits, top_k=10, top_p=1.0, temperature=1.0):
 
 
 
-class VoiceCraft(nn.Module):
-    def __init__(self, args):
+class VoiceCraft(
+        nn.Module,
+        PyTorchModelHubMixin,
+        library_name="voicecraft",
+        repo_url="https://github.com/jasonppy/VoiceCraft",
+        tags=["text-to-speech"],
+    ):
+    def __new__(cls, args: Optional[Namespace] = None, config: Optional[Dict] = None, **kwargs) -> "VoiceCraft":
+        # If initialized from Namespace args => convert to dict config for 'PyTorchModelHubMixin' to serialize it as config.json
+        # Won't affect instance initialization
+        if args is not None:
+            if config is not None:
+                raise ValueError("Cannot provide both `args` and `config`.")
+            config = vars(args)
+        return super().__new__(cls, args=args, config=config, **kwargs)
+
+    def __init__(self, args: Optional[Namespace] = None, config: Optional[Dict] = None):
         super().__init__()
+
+        # If loaded from HF Hub => convert config.json to Namespace args before initializing
+        if args is None:
+            if config is None:
+                raise ValueError("Either `args` or `config` must be provided.")
+            args = Namespace(**config)
+
         self.args = copy.copy(args)
         self.pattern = DelayedPatternProvider(n_q=self.args.n_codebooks)
         if not getattr(self.args, "special_first", False):
@@ -100,7 +123,7 @@ class VoiceCraft(nn.Module):
         if self.args.eos > 0:
             assert self.args.eos != self.args.audio_pad_token and self.args.eos != self.args.empty_token, self.args.eos
             self.eos = nn.Parameter(torch.full((self.args.n_codebooks, 1), self.args.eos, dtype=torch.long), requires_grad=False) # [K 1]
-        if type(self.args.audio_vocab_size) == str:
+        if isinstance(self.args.audio_vocab_size, str):
             self.args.audio_vocab_size = eval(self.args.audio_vocab_size)
 
         self.n_text_tokens = self.args.text_vocab_size + 1
@@ -1414,9 +1437,3 @@ class VoiceCraft(nn.Module):
             flatten_gen = flatten_gen - int(self.args.n_special)
 
         return res, flatten_gen[0].unsqueeze(0)
-    
-
-class VoiceCraftHF(VoiceCraft, PyTorchModelHubMixin, repo_url="https://github.com/jasonppy/VoiceCraft", tags=["Text-to-Speech", "VoiceCraft"]):
-    def __init__(self, config: dict):
-        args = Namespace(**config)
-        super().__init__(args)
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