From dd739106515ea95015251e47d319e21617c7f263 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VLT Media <39071455+vltmedia@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 01:41:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Bug: self.model_name needed to be initialized.

Bug: self.model_name needed to be initialize to get around a bug that automatically crashes when the user provides the model paths but no model_name when initializing the TTS object.
---
 TTS/api.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/TTS/api.py b/TTS/api.py
index 1eb0b51066..8467bcfe64 100644
--- a/TTS/api.py
+++ b/TTS/api.py
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.voice_converter = None
         self.csapi = None
         self.cs_api_model = cs_api_model
-        self.model_name = None
+        self.model_name = ""
 
         if gpu:
             warnings.warn("`gpu` will be deprecated. Please use `tts.to(device)` instead.")