diff --git a/TTS/tts/models/vits.py b/TTS/tts/models/vits.py
index bc459b7f..d1755b47 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/models/vits.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/models/vits.py
@@ -402,7 +402,6 @@ class Vits(BaseTTS):
         # speaker embedding
         if self.num_speakers > 1 and sid is not None:
             g = self.emb_g(sid).unsqueeze(-1)  # [b, h, 1]
-
         # posterior encoder
         z, m_q, logs_q, y_mask = self.posterior_encoder(y, y_lengths, g=g)
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3ec33ceb..d21a972f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ pyyaml
 scipy>=0.19.0
 soundfile
 tensorboardX
-torch>=1.7
+torch>=1.9.0
 tqdm
 numba==0.53
 umap-learn==0.5.1