diff --git a/TTS/utils/trainer_utils.py b/TTS/utils/trainer_utils.py
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-import importlib
-import os
-import re
-from typing import Dict, List, Tuple
-from urllib.parse import urlparse
-
-import fsspec
-import torch
-
-from TTS.utils.io import load_fsspec
-from TTS.utils.training import NoamLR
-
-
-def is_apex_available():
-    return importlib.util.find_spec("apex") is not None
-
-
-def setup_torch_training_env(cudnn_enable: bool, cudnn_benchmark: bool, use_ddp: bool = False) -> Tuple[bool, int]:
-    """Setup PyTorch environment for training.
-
-    Args:
-        cudnn_enable (bool): Enable/disable CUDNN.
-        cudnn_benchmark (bool): Enable/disable CUDNN benchmarking. Better to set to False if input sequence length is
-            variable between batches.
-        use_ddp (bool): DDP flag. True if DDP is enabled, False otherwise.
-
-    Returns:
-        Tuple[bool, int]: is cuda on or off and number of GPUs in the environment.
-    """
-    num_gpus = torch.cuda.device_count()
-    if num_gpus > 1 and not use_ddp:
-        raise RuntimeError(
-            f" [!] {num_gpus} active GPUs. Define the target GPU by `CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES`. For multi-gpu training use `TTS/bin/distribute.py`."
-        )
-    torch.backends.cudnn.enabled = cudnn_enable
-    torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = cudnn_benchmark
-    torch.manual_seed(54321)
-    use_cuda = torch.cuda.is_available()
-    print(" > Using CUDA: ", use_cuda)
-    print(" > Number of GPUs: ", num_gpus)
-    return use_cuda, num_gpus
-
-
-def get_scheduler(
-    lr_scheduler: str, lr_scheduler_params: Dict, optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer
-) -> torch.optim.lr_scheduler._LRScheduler:  # pylint: disable=protected-access
-    """Find, initialize and return a scheduler.
-
-    Args:
-        lr_scheduler (str): Scheduler name.
-        lr_scheduler_params (Dict): Scheduler parameters.
-        optimizer (torch.optim.Optimizer): Optimizer to pass to the scheduler.
-
-    Returns:
-        torch.optim.lr_scheduler._LRScheduler: Functional scheduler.
-    """
-    if lr_scheduler is None:
-        return None
-    if lr_scheduler.lower() == "noamlr":
-        scheduler = NoamLR
-    else:
-        scheduler = getattr(torch.optim.lr_scheduler, lr_scheduler)
-    return scheduler(optimizer, **lr_scheduler_params)
-
-
-def get_optimizer(
-    optimizer_name: str, optimizer_params: dict, lr: float, model: torch.nn.Module = None, parameters: List = None
-) -> torch.optim.Optimizer:
-    """Find, initialize and return a optimizer.
-
-    Args:
-        optimizer_name (str): Optimizer name.
-        optimizer_params (dict): Optimizer parameters.
-        lr (float): Initial learning rate.
-        model (torch.nn.Module): Model to pass to the optimizer.
-
-    Returns:
-        torch.optim.Optimizer: Functional optimizer.
-    """
-    if optimizer_name.lower() == "radam":
-        module = importlib.import_module("TTS.utils.radam")
-        optimizer = getattr(module, "RAdam")
-    else:
-        optimizer = getattr(torch.optim, optimizer_name)
-    if model is not None:
-        parameters = model.parameters()
-    return optimizer(parameters, lr=lr, **optimizer_params)
-
-
-def get_last_checkpoint(path: str) -> Tuple[str, str]:
-    """Get latest checkpoint or/and best model in path.
-
-    It is based on globbing for `*.pth.tar` and the RegEx
-    `(checkpoint|best_model)_([0-9]+)`.
-
-    Args:
-        path: Path to files to be compared.
-
-    Raises:
-        ValueError: If no checkpoint or best_model files are found.
-
-    Returns:
-        Path to the last checkpoint
-        Path to best checkpoint
-    """
-    fs = fsspec.get_mapper(path).fs
-    file_names = fs.glob(os.path.join(path, "*.pth.tar"))
-    scheme = urlparse(path).scheme
-    if scheme:  # scheme is not preserved in fs.glob, add it back
-        file_names = [scheme + "://" + file_name for file_name in file_names]
-    last_models = {}
-    last_model_nums = {}
-    for key in ["checkpoint", "best_model"]:
-        last_model_num = None
-        last_model = None
-        # pass all the checkpoint files and find
-        # the one with the largest model number suffix.
-        for file_name in file_names:
-            match = re.search(f"{key}_([0-9]+)", file_name)
-            if match is not None:
-                model_num = int(match.groups()[0])
-                if last_model_num is None or model_num > last_model_num:
-                    last_model_num = model_num
-                    last_model = file_name
-
-        # if there is no checkpoint found above
-        # find the checkpoint with the latest
-        # modification date.
-        key_file_names = [fn for fn in file_names if key in fn]
-        if last_model is None and len(key_file_names) > 0:
-            last_model = max(key_file_names, key=os.path.getctime)
-            last_model_num = load_fsspec(last_model)["step"]
-
-        if last_model is not None:
-            last_models[key] = last_model
-            last_model_nums[key] = last_model_num
-
-    # check what models were found
-    if not last_models:
-        raise ValueError(f"No models found in continue path {path}!")
-    if "checkpoint" not in last_models:  # no checkpoint just best model
-        last_models["checkpoint"] = last_models["best_model"]
-    elif "best_model" not in last_models:  # no best model
-        # this shouldn't happen, but let's handle it just in case
-        last_models["best_model"] = last_models["checkpoint"]
-    # finally check if last best model is more recent than checkpoint
-    elif last_model_nums["best_model"] > last_model_nums["checkpoint"]:
-        last_models["checkpoint"] = last_models["best_model"]
-
-    return last_models["checkpoint"], last_models["best_model"]