diff --git a/TTS/.models.json b/TTS/.models.json
index 8e35893b..0c318740 100644
--- a/TTS/.models.json
+++ b/TTS/.models.json
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
                 "xtts_v1.1": {
                     "description": "XTTS-v1.1 by Coqui with 14 languages, cross-language voice cloning and reference leak fixed.",
                     "hf_url": [
-                        "https://coqui.gateway.scarf.sh/hf-coqui/XTTS-v1/v1.1/model.pth",
-                        "https://coqui.gateway.scarf.sh/hf-coqui/XTTS-v1/v1.1/config.json",
-                        "https://coqui.gateway.scarf.sh/hf-coqui/XTTS-v1/v1.1/vocab.json",
-                        "https://coqui.gateway.scarf.sh/hf-coqui/XTTS-v1/v1.1/hash.md5"
+                        "https://coqui.gateway.scarf.sh/hf-coqui/XTTS-v1/v1.1.1/model.pth",
+                        "https://coqui.gateway.scarf.sh/hf-coqui/XTTS-v1/v1.1.1/config.json",
+                        "https://coqui.gateway.scarf.sh/hf-coqui/XTTS-v1/v1.1.1/vocab.json",
+                        "https://coqui.gateway.scarf.sh/hf-coqui/XTTS-v1/v1.1.1/hash.md5"
                     ],
-                    "model_hash": "10163afc541dc86801b33d1f3217b456",
+                    "model_hash": "ae9e4b39e095fd5728fe7f7931ec66ad",
                     "default_vocoder": null,
                     "commit": "82910a63",
                     "license": "CPML",
diff --git a/TTS/tts/configs/xtts_config.py b/TTS/tts/configs/xtts_config.py
index b9685590..4e5031ba 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/configs/xtts_config.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/configs/xtts_config.py
@@ -78,13 +78,13 @@ class XttsConfig(BaseTTSConfig):
     )
 
     # inference params
-    temperature: float = 0.2
+    temperature: float = 0.85
     length_penalty: float = 1.0
     repetition_penalty: float = 2.0
     top_k: int = 50
-    top_p: float = 0.8
+    top_p: float = 0.85
     cond_free_k: float = 2.0
     diffusion_temperature: float = 1.0
-    num_gpt_outputs: int = 16
+    num_gpt_outputs: int = 1
     decoder_iterations: int = 30
     decoder_sampler: str = "ddim"
diff --git a/TTS/tts/models/xtts.py b/TTS/tts/models/xtts.py
index 76c5595e..40e8f946 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/models/xtts.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/models/xtts.py
@@ -821,8 +821,6 @@ class Xtts(BaseTTS):
             self.tokenizer = VoiceBpeTokenizer(vocab_file=vocab_path)
 
         self.init_models()
-        if eval:
-            self.gpt.init_gpt_for_inference(kv_cache=self.args.kv_cache)
 
         checkpoint = load_fsspec(model_path, map_location=torch.device("cpu"))["model"]
         ignore_keys = ["diffusion_decoder", "vocoder"] if self.args.use_hifigan or self.args.use_ne_hifigan else []
@@ -831,7 +829,14 @@ class Xtts(BaseTTS):
         for key in list(checkpoint.keys()):
             if key.split(".")[0] in ignore_keys:
                 del checkpoint[key]
-        self.load_state_dict(checkpoint, strict=strict)
+
+        # deal with v1 and v1.1. V1 has the init_gpt_for_inference keys, v1.1 do not
+        try:
+            self.load_state_dict(checkpoint, strict=strict)
+        except:
+            if eval:
+                self.gpt.init_gpt_for_inference(kv_cache=self.args.kv_cache)
+            self.load_state_dict(checkpoint, strict=strict)
 
         if eval:
             if hasattr(self, "hifigan_decoder"): self.hifigan_decoder.eval()