diff --git a/TTS/vocoder/models/wavernn.py b/TTS/vocoder/models/wavernn.py
index 8aa84d34..bded4cd8 100644
--- a/TTS/vocoder/models/wavernn.py
+++ b/TTS/vocoder/models/wavernn.py
@@ -499,3 +499,10 @@ class WaveRNN(nn.Module):
             unfolded[start:end] += y[i]
 
         return unfolded
+
+     def load_checkpoint(self, config, checkpoint_path, eval=False):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
+        state = torch.load(checkpoint_path, map_location=torch.device('cpu'))
+        self.load_state_dict(state['model'])
+        if eval:
+            self.eval()
+            assert not self.training