diff --git a/TTS/tts/utils/text/tokenizer.py b/TTS/tts/utils/text/tokenizer.py
index 3f416bbb..f84a51ee 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/utils/text/tokenizer.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/utils/text/tokenizer.py
@@ -146,8 +146,9 @@ class TTSTokenizer:
                 the config values. Defaults to None.
         """
         # init cleaners
+        text_cleaner = None
         if isinstance(config.text_cleaner, (str, list)):
-            text_cleaner = getattr(cleaners, config.text_cleaner)
+            text_cleaner = getattr(config, "text_cleaner")
 
         # init characters
         if characters is None: