diff --git a/TTS/bin/train_glow_tts.py b/TTS/bin/train_glow_tts.py
index 261267df..fcf6c4cd 100644
--- a/TTS/bin/train_glow_tts.py
+++ b/TTS/bin/train_glow_tts.py
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ from TTS.utils.audio import AudioProcessor
 from TTS.utils.console_logger import ConsoleLogger
 from TTS.utils.generic_utils import (KeepAverage, count_parameters,
                                      create_experiment_folder, get_git_branch,
-                                     remove_experiment_folder, set_init_dict,
-                                     set_amp_context)
+                                     remove_experiment_folder, set_init_dict)
 from TTS.utils.io import copy_config_file, load_config
 from TTS.utils.radam import RAdam
 from TTS.utils.tensorboard_logger import TensorboardLogger
diff --git a/TTS/bin/train_tacotron.py b/TTS/bin/train_tacotron.py
index d999ddbe..6c12e54b 100644
--- a/TTS/bin/train_tacotron.py
+++ b/TTS/bin/train_tacotron.py
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ from TTS.utils.distribute import (DistributedSampler, apply_gradient_allreduce,
                                   init_distributed, reduce_tensor)
 from TTS.utils.generic_utils import (KeepAverage, count_parameters,
                                      create_experiment_folder, get_git_branch,
-                                     remove_experiment_folder, set_init_dict,
-                                     set_amp_context)
+                                     remove_experiment_folder, set_init_dict)
 from TTS.utils.io import copy_config_file, load_config
 from TTS.utils.radam import RAdam
 from TTS.utils.tensorboard_logger import TensorboardLogger
diff --git a/TTS/bin/train_vocoder_wavegrad.py b/TTS/bin/train_vocoder_wavegrad.py
index 97eb0435..9730d1c6 100644
--- a/TTS/bin/train_vocoder_wavegrad.py
+++ b/TTS/bin/train_vocoder_wavegrad.py
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ from TTS.utils.console_logger import ConsoleLogger
 from TTS.utils.distribute import init_distributed
 from TTS.utils.generic_utils import (KeepAverage, count_parameters,
                                      create_experiment_folder, get_git_branch,
-                                     remove_experiment_folder, set_init_dict,
-                                     set_amp_context)
+                                     remove_experiment_folder, set_init_dict)
 from TTS.utils.io import copy_config_file, load_config
 from TTS.utils.tensorboard_logger import TensorboardLogger
 from TTS.utils.training import setup_torch_training_env
diff --git a/TTS/tts/configs/config.json b/TTS/tts/configs/config.json
index 2cad69c3..7274fd9d 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/configs/config.json
+++ b/TTS/tts/configs/config.json
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
     "eval_batch_size":16,
     "r": 7,                 // Number of decoder frames to predict per iteration. Set the initial values if gradual training is enabled.
     "gradual_training": [[0, 7, 64], [1, 5, 64], [50000, 3, 32], [130000, 2, 32], [290000, 1, 32]], //set gradual training steps [first_step, r, batch_size]. If it is null, gradual training is disabled. For Tacotron, you might need to reduce the 'batch_size' as you proceeed.
-    "apex_amp_level": null,     // level of optimization with NVIDIA's apex feature for automatic mixed FP16/FP32 precision (AMP), NOTE: currently only O1 is supported, and use "O1" to activate.
+    "mixed_precision": true,     // level of optimization with NVIDIA's apex feature for automatic mixed FP16/FP32 precision (AMP), NOTE: currently only O1 is supported, and use "O1" to activate.
 
     // LOSS SETTINGS
     "loss_masking": true,       // enable / disable loss masking against the sequence padding.
diff --git a/TTS/utils/generic_utils.py b/TTS/utils/generic_utils.py
index bd99ecc2..20e11f41 100644
--- a/TTS/utils/generic_utils.py
+++ b/TTS/utils/generic_utils.py
@@ -4,22 +4,10 @@ import os
 import shutil
 import subprocess
 import contextlib
-import platform
 
 import torch
 
 
-def set_amp_context(mixed_precision):
-    if mixed_precision:
-        cm = torch.cuda.amp.autocast()
-    else:
-        # if platform.python_version() <= "3.6.0":
-        cm = contextlib.suppress()
-        # else:
-            # cm = contextlib.nullcontext()
-    return cm
-
-
 def get_git_branch():
     try:
         out = subprocess.check_output(["git", "branch"]).decode("utf8")