diff --git a/TTS/api.py b/TTS/api.py
index 6fa8c606..850f0681 100644
--- a/TTS/api.py
+++ b/TTS/api.py
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ class TTS:
         return model_path, config_path, vocoder_path, vocoder_config_path
 
     def load_model_by_name(self, model_name: str, gpu: bool = False):
-        model_path, config_path, vocoder_path, vocoder_config_path = self.download_model_by_name(model_name)
         """ Load one of 🐸TTS models by name.
 
         Args:
@@ -111,6 +110,9 @@ class TTS:
 
         TODO: Add tests
         """
+
+        model_path, config_path, vocoder_path, vocoder_config_path = self.download_model_by_name(model_name)
+
         # init synthesizer
         # None values are fetch from the model
         self.synthesizer = Synthesizer(
diff --git a/tests/inference_tests/test_python_api.py b/tests/inference_tests/test_python_api.py
index b306b5ea..6114c803 100644
--- a/tests/inference_tests/test_python_api.py
+++ b/tests/inference_tests/test_python_api.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class TTSTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertGreater(len(tts.speakers), 1)
         self.assertGreater(len(tts.languages), 1)
 
-    def test_voice_cloning():
+    def test_voice_cloning(self):
         tts = TTS()
         tts.load_model_by_name("tts_models/multilingual/multi-dataset/your_tts")
         tts.tts_to_file("Hello world!", speaker_wav=cloning_test_wav_path, language="en", file_path=OUTPUT_PATH)