diff --git a/TTS/config/__init__.py b/TTS/config/__init__.py
index b4f1cbea..ecbe1f9a 100644
--- a/TTS/config/__init__.py
+++ b/TTS/config/__init__.py
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 import json
 import os
 import re
+from typing import Dict
 
 import yaml
+from coqpit import Coqpit
 
 from TTS.config.shared_configs import *
 from TTS.utils.generic_utils import find_module
@@ -20,7 +22,18 @@ def read_json_with_comments(json_path):
     return data
 
 
-def _search_configs(model_name):
+def register_config(model_name: str) -> Coqpit:
+    """Find the right config for the given model name.
+
+    Args:
+        model_name (str): Model name.
+
+    Raises:
+        ModuleNotFoundError: No matching config for the model name.
+
+    Returns:
+        Coqpit: config class.
+    """
     config_class = None
     paths = ["TTS.tts.configs", "TTS.vocoder.configs", "TTS.speaker_encoder"]
     for path in paths:
@@ -33,7 +46,15 @@ def _search_configs(model_name):
     return config_class
 
 
-def _process_model_name(config_dict):
+def _process_model_name(config_dict: Dict) -> str:
+    """Format the model name as expected. It is a band-aid for the old `vocoder` model names.
+
+    Args:
+        config_dict (Dict): A dictionary including the config fields.
+
+    Returns:
+        str: Formatted modelname.
+    """
     model_name = config_dict["model"] if "model" in config_dict else config_dict["generator_model"]
     model_name = model_name.replace("_generator", "").replace("_discriminator", "")
     return model_name
@@ -69,7 +90,7 @@ def load_config(config_path: str) -> None:
         raise TypeError(f" [!] Unknown config file type {ext}")
     config_dict.update(data)
     model_name = _process_model_name(config_dict)
-    config_class = _search_configs(model_name.lower())
+    config_class = register_config(model_name.lower())
     config = config_class()
     config.from_dict(config_dict)
     return config
diff --git a/TTS/trainer.py b/TTS/trainer.py
index d5aec1c9..e3403bae 100644
--- a/TTS/trainer.py
+++ b/TTS/trainer.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ from torch import nn
 from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP_th
 from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
 
-from TTS.config import load_config
+from TTS.config import load_config, register_config
 from TTS.tts.datasets import load_meta_data
 from TTS.tts.models import setup_model as setup_tts_model
 from TTS.tts.utils.text.symbols import parse_symbols
@@ -940,7 +940,10 @@ def process_args(args, config=None):
         c_logger (TTS.utils.console_logger.ConsoleLogger): Class that does
             logging to the console.
         tb_logger (TTS.utils.tensorboard.TensorboardLogger): Class that does
-            the TensorBoard loggind.
+            the TensorBoard logging.
+
+    TODO:
+        - Interactive config definition.
     """
     if isinstance(args, tuple):
         args, coqpit_overrides = args
@@ -951,9 +954,17 @@ def process_args(args, config=None):
         args.restore_path, best_model = get_last_checkpoint(args.continue_path)
         if not args.best_path:
             args.best_path = best_model
-    # setup output paths and read configs
-    if config is None:
+    # init config
+    if config is None and args.config_path:
+        # init from a file
         config = load_config(args.config_path)
+    else:
+        # init from console args
+        from TTS.config.shared_configs import BaseTrainingConfig
+
+        config_base = BaseTrainingConfig()
+        config_base.parse_known_args(coqpit_overrides)
+        config = register_config(config_base.model)()
     # override values from command-line args
     config.parse_known_args(coqpit_overrides, relaxed_parser=True)
     if config.mixed_precision: