diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker.yaml b/.github/workflows/docker.yaml
index ab4e9960..3e526e60 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docker.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docker.yaml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
             branch=${github_ref#*refs/heads/} # strip prefix to get branch name
             tags="${base}:${branch},${base}:${{ github.sha }},"
           elif [[ "${{ startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/') }}" = "true" ]]; then
-            VERSION="v$(cat TTS/VERSION)"
+            VERSION="v$(grep -m 1 version pyproject.toml | grep -P '\d+\.\d+\.\d+' -o)"
             if [[ "${{ github.ref }}" != "refs/tags/${VERSION}" ]]; then
               echo "Pushed tag does not match VERSION file. Aborting push."
               exit 1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml b/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml
index 78ab5398..14c956fc 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Verify tag matches version
         run: |
           set -ex
-          version=$(cat TTS/VERSION)
+          version=$(grep -m 1 version pyproject.toml | grep -P '\d+\.\d+\.\d+' -o)
           tag="${GITHUB_REF/refs\/tags\/}"
           if [[ "v$version" != "$tag" ]]; then
             exit 1
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 321d3999..498b33c0 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ include LICENSE.txt
 include requirements.*.txt
 include *.cff
 include requirements.txt
-include TTS/VERSION
 recursive-include TTS *.json
 recursive-include TTS *.html
 recursive-include TTS *.png
diff --git a/TTS/VERSION b/TTS/VERSION
deleted file mode 100644
index 610e2872..00000000
--- a/TTS/VERSION
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-0.23.1
diff --git a/TTS/__init__.py b/TTS/__init__.py
index eaf05db1..e69de29b 100644
--- a/TTS/__init__.py
+++ b/TTS/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-import os
-
-with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "VERSION"), "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
-    version = f.read().strip()
-
-__version__ = version
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index b85324fd..200a487f 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
 # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
 #
+import importlib.metadata
 import os
 import sys
 
@@ -23,13 +24,10 @@ project = 'TTS'
 copyright = "2021 Coqui GmbH, 2020 TTS authors"
 author = 'Coqui GmbH'
 
-with open("../../TTS/VERSION", "r") as ver:
-    version = ver.read().strip()
-
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
 # built documents.
-release = version
+release = importlib.metadata.version(project)
 
 # The main toctree document.
 master_doc = "index"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d10b78f7..b58716e2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ include = ["TTS*"]
 
 [project]
 name = "coqui-tts"
+version = "0.23.1"
 description = "Deep learning for Text to Speech."
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.9, <3.13"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7180f48b..722959cd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ from Cython.Build import cythonize
 from setuptools import Extension, setup
 
 cwd = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
-with open(os.path.join(cwd, "TTS", "VERSION")) as fin:
-    version = fin.read().strip()
 
 
 class build_py(setuptools.command.build_py.build_py):  # pylint: disable=too-many-ancestors
@@ -70,7 +68,6 @@ exts = [
     )
 ]
 setup(
-    version=version,
     # cython
     include_dirs=numpy.get_include(),
     ext_modules=cythonize(exts, language_level=3),