diff --git a/bark/generation.py b/bark/generation.py
index 4ac165c..64b3c47 100644
--- a/bark/generation.py
+++ b/bark/generation.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import torch
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 import tqdm
 from transformers import BertTokenizer
+from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
 
 from .model import GPTConfig, GPT
 from .model_fine import FineGPT, FineGPTConfig
@@ -89,31 +90,36 @@ USE_SMALL_MODELS = os.environ.get("SUNO_USE_SMALL_MODELS", False)
 GLOBAL_ENABLE_MPS = os.environ.get("SUNO_ENABLE_MPS", False)
 OFFLOAD_CPU = os.environ.get("SUNO_OFFLOAD_CPU", False)
 
-REMOTE_BASE_URL = "https://dl.suno-models.io/bark/models/v0/"
 
 REMOTE_MODEL_PATHS = {
     "text_small": {
-        "path": os.path.join(REMOTE_BASE_URL, "text.pt"),
+        "repo_id": "suno/bark",
+        "file_name": "text.pt",
         "checksum": "b3e42bcbab23b688355cd44128c4cdd3",
     },
     "coarse_small": {
-        "path": os.path.join(REMOTE_BASE_URL, "coarse.pt"),
+        "repo_id": "suno/bark",
+        "file_name": "coarse.pt",
         "checksum": "5fe964825e3b0321f9d5f3857b89194d",
     },
     "fine_small": {
-        "path": os.path.join(REMOTE_BASE_URL, "fine.pt"),
+        "repo_id": "suno/bark",
+        "file_name": "fine.pt",
         "checksum": "5428d1befe05be2ba32195496e58dc90",
     },
     "text": {
-        "path": os.path.join(REMOTE_BASE_URL, "text_2.pt"),
+        "repo_id": "suno/bark",
+        "file_name": "text_2.pt",
         "checksum": "54afa89d65e318d4f5f80e8e8799026a",
     },
     "coarse": {
-        "path": os.path.join(REMOTE_BASE_URL, "coarse_2.pt"),
+        "repo_id": "suno/bark",
+        "file_name": "coarse_2.pt",
         "checksum": "8a98094e5e3a255a5c9c0ab7efe8fd28",
     },
     "fine": {
-        "path": os.path.join(REMOTE_BASE_URL, "fine_2.pt"),
+        "repo_id": "suno/bark",
+        "file_name": "fine_2.pt",
         "checksum": "59d184ed44e3650774a2f0503a48a97b",
     },
 }
@@ -142,7 +148,7 @@ def _md5(fname):
 
 def _get_ckpt_path(model_type, use_small=False):
     model_key = f"{model_type}_small" if use_small or USE_SMALL_MODELS else model_type
-    model_name = _string_md5(REMOTE_MODEL_PATHS[model_key]["path"])
+    model_name = _string_md5(REMOTE_MODEL_PATHS[model_key]["file_name"])
     return os.path.join(CACHE_DIR, f"{model_name}.pt")
 
 
@@ -156,29 +162,11 @@ def _grab_best_device(use_gpu=True):
     return device
 
 
-S3_BUCKET_PATH_RE = r"s3\:\/\/(.+?)\/"
-
-
-def _parse_s3_filepath(s3_filepath):
-    bucket_name = re.search(S3_BUCKET_PATH_RE, s3_filepath).group(1)
-    rel_s3_filepath = re.sub(S3_BUCKET_PATH_RE, "", s3_filepath)
-    return bucket_name, rel_s3_filepath
-
-
-def _download(from_s3_path, to_local_path):
+def _download(from_hf_path, file_name, to_local_path):
     os.makedirs(CACHE_DIR, exist_ok=True)
-    response = requests.get(from_s3_path, stream=True)
-    total_size_in_bytes = int(response.headers.get("content-length", 0))
-    block_size = 1024
-    progress_bar = tqdm.tqdm(total=total_size_in_bytes, unit="iB", unit_scale=True)
-    with open(to_local_path, "wb") as file:
-        for data in response.iter_content(block_size):
-            progress_bar.update(len(data))
-            file.write(data)
-    progress_bar.close()
-    if total_size_in_bytes != 0 and progress_bar.n != total_size_in_bytes:
-        raise ValueError("ERROR, something went wrong")
-
+    destination_file_name = to_local_path.split("/")[-1]
+    hf_hub_download(repo_id=from_hf_path, filename=file_name, local_dir=CACHE_DIR)
+    os.replace(os.path.join(CACHE_DIR, file_name), to_local_path)
 
 class InferenceContext:
     def __init__(self, benchmark=False):
@@ -243,7 +231,7 @@ def _load_model(ckpt_path, device, use_small=False, model_type="text"):
         os.remove(ckpt_path)
     if not os.path.exists(ckpt_path):
         logger.info(f"{model_type} model not found, downloading into `{CACHE_DIR}`.")
-        _download(model_info["path"], ckpt_path)
+        _download(model_info["repo_id"], model_info["file_name"], ckpt_path)
     checkpoint = torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location=device)
     # this is a hack
     model_args = checkpoint["model_args"]