diff --git a/src/f5_tts/api.py b/src/f5_tts/api.py
index a4196f2..610eb3b 100644
--- a/src/f5_tts/api.py
+++ b/src/f5_tts/api.py
@@ -46,24 +46,30 @@ class F5TTS:
         )
 
         # Load models
-        self.load_vocoder_model(vocoder_name, local_path)
-        self.load_ema_model(model_type, ckpt_file, vocoder_name, vocab_file, ode_method, use_ema)
+        self.load_vocoder_model(vocoder_name, local_path=local_path)
+        self.load_ema_model(model_type, ckpt_file, vocoder_name, vocab_file, ode_method, use_ema, local_path=local_path)
 
     def load_vocoder_model(self, vocoder_name, local_path):
         self.vocoder = load_vocoder(vocoder_name, local_path is not None, local_path, self.device)
 
-    def load_ema_model(self, model_type, ckpt_file, mel_spec_type, vocab_file, ode_method, use_ema):
+    def load_ema_model(self, model_type, ckpt_file, mel_spec_type, vocab_file, ode_method, use_ema, local_path):
         if model_type == "F5-TTS":
             if not ckpt_file:
                 if mel_spec_type == "vocos":
-                    ckpt_file = str(cached_path("hf://SWivid/F5-TTS/F5TTS_Base/model_1200000.safetensors"))
+                    ckpt_file = str(
+                        cached_path("hf://SWivid/F5-TTS/F5TTS_Base/model_1200000.safetensors", cache_dir=local_path)
+                    )
                 elif mel_spec_type == "bigvgan":
-                    ckpt_file = str(cached_path("hf://SWivid/F5-TTS/F5TTS_Base_bigvgan/model_1250000.pt"))
+                    ckpt_file = str(
+                        cached_path("hf://SWivid/F5-TTS/F5TTS_Base_bigvgan/model_1250000.pt", cache_dir=local_path)
+                    )
             model_cfg = dict(dim=1024, depth=22, heads=16, ff_mult=2, text_dim=512, conv_layers=4)
             model_cls = DiT
         elif model_type == "E2-TTS":
             if not ckpt_file:
-                ckpt_file = str(cached_path("hf://SWivid/E2-TTS/E2TTS_Base/model_1200000.safetensors"))
+                ckpt_file = str(
+                    cached_path("hf://SWivid/E2-TTS/E2TTS_Base/model_1200000.safetensors", cache_dir=local_path)
+                )
             model_cfg = dict(dim=1024, depth=24, heads=16, ff_mult=4)
             model_cls = UNetT
         else:
diff --git a/src/f5_tts/infer/SHARED.md b/src/f5_tts/infer/SHARED.md
index dbdd63c..a180bd8 100644
--- a/src/f5_tts/infer/SHARED.md
+++ b/src/f5_tts/infer/SHARED.md
@@ -40,6 +40,17 @@ VOCAB_FILE: hf://SWivid/F5-TTS/F5TTS_Base/vocab.txt
 
 ## Mandarin
 
+## Japanese
+
+#### F5-TTS Base @ pretrain/finetune @ ja
+|Model|🤗Hugging Face|Data (Hours)|Model License|
+|:---:|:------------:|:-----------:|:-------------:|
+|F5-TTS Base|[ckpt & vocab](https://huggingface.co/Jmica/F5TTS/tree/main/JA_8500000)|[Emilia 1.7k JA](https://huggingface.co/datasets/amphion/Emilia-Dataset/tree/fc71e07) & [Galgame Dataset 5.4k](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OOPPEENN/Galgame_Dataset)|cc-by-nc-4.0|
+
+```bash
+MODEL_CKPT: hf://Jmica/F5TTS/JA_8500000/model_8499660.pt
+VOCAB_FILE: hf://Jmica/F5TTS/JA_8500000/vocab_updated.txt
+```
 
 ## English
 
diff --git a/src/f5_tts/infer/utils_infer.py b/src/f5_tts/infer/utils_infer.py
index 469855f..11910b5 100644
--- a/src/f5_tts/infer/utils_infer.py
+++ b/src/f5_tts/infer/utils_infer.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import numpy as np
 import torch
 import torchaudio
 import tqdm
+from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download, hf_hub_download
 from pydub import AudioSegment, silence
 from transformers import pipeline
 from vocos import Vocos
@@ -93,8 +94,16 @@ def load_vocoder(vocoder_name="vocos", is_local=False, local_path="", device=dev
     if vocoder_name == "vocos":
         if is_local:
             print(f"Load vocos from local path {local_path}")
-            vocoder = Vocos.from_hparams(f"{local_path}/config.yaml")
-            state_dict = torch.load(f"{local_path}/pytorch_model.bin", map_location="cpu")
+            repo_id = "charactr/vocos-mel-24khz"
+            revision = None
+            config_path = hf_hub_download(
+                repo_id=repo_id, cache_dir=local_path, filename="config.yaml", revision=revision
+            )
+            model_path = hf_hub_download(
+                repo_id=repo_id, cache_dir=local_path, filename="pytorch_model.bin", revision=revision
+            )
+            vocoder = Vocos.from_hparams(config_path=config_path)
+            state_dict = torch.load(model_path, map_location="cpu")
             vocoder.load_state_dict(state_dict)
             vocoder = vocoder.eval().to(device)
         else:
@@ -107,6 +116,7 @@ def load_vocoder(vocoder_name="vocos", is_local=False, local_path="", device=dev
             print("You need to follow the README to init submodule and change the BigVGAN source code.")
         if is_local:
             """download from https://huggingface.co/nvidia/bigvgan_v2_24khz_100band_256x/tree/main"""
+            local_path = snapshot_download(repo_id="nvidia/bigvgan_v2_24khz_100band_256x", cache_dir=local_path)
             vocoder = bigvgan.BigVGAN.from_pretrained(local_path, use_cuda_kernel=False)
         else:
             vocoder = bigvgan.BigVGAN.from_pretrained("nvidia/bigvgan_v2_24khz_100band_256x", use_cuda_kernel=False)