diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a7895a5..ec570e7 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@
 
 # VALL'E
 
-An unofficial PyTorch implementation of [VALL-E](https://valle-demo.github.io/), based on the [EnCodec](https://github.com/facebookresearch/encodec) tokenizer.
+An unofficial PyTorch implementation of [VALL-E](https://valle-demo.github.io/), utilizing the [EnCodec](https://github.com/facebookresearch/encodec) encoder/decoder.
+
+[Main Repo](https://git.ecker.tech/mrq/vall-e) | [GitHub Mirror](https://github.com/e-c-k-e-r/vall-e/) | [HuggingFace Space](https://huggingface.co/spaces/ecker/vall-e)
+
+> **Note** This README is still quite a disorganized mess.
 
 ## Requirements
 
@@ -32,11 +36,7 @@ A HuggingFace space hosting the code and models can be found [here](https://hugg
 
 ### Local
 
-To quickly try it out, you can choose between the following modes:
-
-* AR only: `python -m vall_e.models.ar yaml="./data/config.yaml"`
-* NAR only: `python -m vall_e.models.nar yaml="./data/config.yaml"`
-* AR+NAR: `python -m vall_e.models.base yaml="./data/config.yaml"`
+To quickly try it out, you can run `python -m vall_e.models.ar_nar yaml="./data/config.yaml"`
 
 Each model file has a barebones trainer and inference routine.
 
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ A "libre" dataset can be found [here](https://huggingface.co/ecker/vall-e/blob/m
 If you're interested in creating an HDF5 copy of your dataset, simply invoke: `python -m vall_e.data --action='hdf5' yaml='./data/config.yaml'`
 
 5. Train the AR and NAR models using the following scripts: `python -m vall_e.train yaml=./data/config.yaml`
+* If distributing your training (for example, multi-GPU), use `deepspeed --module vall_e.train yaml="./data/config.yaml"`
 
 You may quit your training any time by just entering `quit` in your CLI. The latest checkpoint will be automatically saved.
 
@@ -98,15 +99,11 @@ You can specify what X and Y labels you want to plot against by passing `--xs to
 
 ### Notices
 
-#### Modifying `prom_levels`, `resp_levels`, Or `tasks` For A Model
-
-If you're wanting to increase the `prom_levels` for a given model, or increase the `tasks` levels a model accepts, you will need to export your weights and set `train.load_state_dict` to `True` in your configuration YAML.
-
 #### Training Under Windows
 
-As training under `deepspeed` is not supported, under your `config.yaml`, simply change `trainer.backend` to `local` to use the local training backend.
+As training under `deepspeed` and Windows is not supported, under your `config.yaml`, simply change `trainer.backend` to `local` to use the local training backend.
 
-Keep in mind that creature comforts like distributed training cannot be verified as working at the moment.
+Keep in mind that creature comforts like distributed training or `float16` training cannot be verified as working at the moment.
 
 #### Training on Low-VRAM Cards
 
@@ -116,13 +113,11 @@ VRAM use is also predicated on your dataset; a mix of large and small utterances
 
 Additionally, under Windows, I managed to finetune the AR on my 2060 (6GiB VRAM) with a batch size of 8 (although, with the card as a secondary GPU).
 
-If you need to, you are free to train only one model at a time. Just remove the definition for one model in your `config.yaml`'s `models._model` list.
-
 ## Export
 
-Both trained models *can* be exported, but is only required if loading them on systems without DeepSpeed for inferencing (Windows systems). To export the models, run: `python -m vall_e.export yaml=./data/config.yaml`.
+To export the models, run: `python -m vall_e.export yaml=./data/config.yaml`.
 
-This will export the latest checkpoints, for example, under `./data/ckpt/ar-retnet-2/fp32.pth` and `./data/ckpt/nar-retnet-2/fp32.pth`, to be loaded on any system with PyTorch.
+This will export the latest checkpoints, for example, under `./data/ckpt/ar-retnet-2/fp32.pth` and `./data/ckpt/nar-retnet-2/fp32.pth`, to be loaded on any system with PyTorch, and will include additional metadata, such as the symmap used, and training stats.
 
 ## Synthesis
 
@@ -149,17 +144,17 @@ And some experimental sampling flags you can use too (your mileage will ***defin
 
 ## To-Do
 
-* reduce load time for creating / preparing dataloaders (hint: remove use of `Path.glob` and `Path.rglob`).
 * train and release a ***good*** model.
-* extend to multiple languages (VALL-E X) and ~~extend to~~ train SpeechX features.
-  + This can easily be done with adding in additional embeddings + tokens, rather than cramming into the input prompt embedding.
-## Notice
+* clean up the README, and document, document, document onto the wiki.
+* extend to multiple languages ([VALL-E X](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03926)) and addditional tasks ([SpeechX](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06873)).
 
-- [EnCodec](https://github.com/facebookresearch/encodec) is licensed under CC-BY-NC 4.0. If you use the code to generate audio quantization or perform decoding, it is important to adhere to the terms of their license.
+## Notices and Citations
 
 Unless otherwise credited/noted, this repository is [licensed](LICENSE) under AGPLv3.
 
-## Citations
+- [EnCodec](https://github.com/facebookresearch/encodec) is licensed under CC-BY-NC 4.0. If you use the code to generate audio quantization or perform decoding, it is important to adhere to the terms of their license.
+
+- This implementation was originally based on [enhuiz/vall-e](https://github.com/enhuiz/vall-e), but has been heavily, heavily modified over time.
 
 ```bibtex
 @article{wang2023neural,
diff --git a/data/config.yaml b/data/config.yaml
index bf08028..9665159 100755
--- a/data/config.yaml
+++ b/data/config.yaml
@@ -1,60 +1,57 @@
 dataset:
-  training: [
-  # "./training/valle/data/LibriTTS/994/",
-  ]
-
-  validation: [
-  #  "./training/valle/data/Validation/1188/",
-  ]
-  noise: [
-  #  "./training/valle/data/Other/noise/",
-  ]
+  training: []
+  validation: []
+  noise: []
   
   speaker_name_getter: "lambda p: f'{p.parts[-3]}_{p.parts[-2]}'"
   
   use_hdf5: True
+  use_metadata: True
   hdf5_flag: r
   validate: True
 
-  workers: 4
+  workers: 2
   cache: True
 
-  phones_range: [4, 512]
+  phones_range: [4, 256]
   duration_range: [1.0, 16.0]
+  min_utterances: 32
 
   random_utterance: 1.0
-  max_prompts: 3
-  prompt_duration: 3.0
+  max_prompts: 6
+  prompt_duration: 6.0
 
   sample_type: speaker
 
-  tasks_list: ["tts"] # ["tts", "ns", "sr", "tse", "cse", "nse"]
+  tasks_list: [ "tts" ] # , [ "tts", "tts-c", "ns", "sr", "tse", "cse", "nse", "tts"]
 
 models:
+  _prom_levels: 8
   _max_levels: 8
-  _models:
-  - name: "ar"
-    size: "full"
-    resp_levels: 1
-    prom_levels: 2
-    tasks: 8
-    arch_type: "retnet"
 
-  - name: "nar"
-    size: "full"
-    resp_levels: 1
-    prom_levels: 2
+  _models:
+  - name: "ar+nar"
+    size: "double"
+    resp_levels: 8
+    prom_levels: 8
     tasks: 8
     arch_type: "retnet"
+    training: True
+    version: 2
 
 
 hyperparameters:
-  batch_size: 16
-  gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+  batch_size: 8
+  gradient_accumulation_steps: 16
   gradient_clipping: 100
   
+  # prodigyopt is nicer, but requires even more VRAM
+  #optimizer: Prodigy
+  #learning_rate: 1.0 # e-4
+
   optimizer: AdamW
   learning_rate: 1.0e-4
+  torch_optimizer: True
   
   scheduler_type: ""
   #scheduler_type: OneCycle
@@ -77,12 +74,13 @@ hyperparameters:
 
 evaluation:
   batch_size: 16
-  frequency: 500
+  frequency: 250
   size: 16
   
-  steps: 300
+  steps: 450
   ar_temperature: 0.95
   nar_temperature: 0.25
+  load_disabled_engines: True
 
 trainer:
   iterations: 1_000_000
@@ -90,11 +88,13 @@ trainer:
   save_tag: step
   save_on_oom: True
   save_on_quit: True
-  save_frequency: 1000
+  save_frequency: 100
+  export_on_save: True
 
   keep_last_checkpoints: 4
 
   aggressive_optimizations: False
+  load_disabled_engines: False
 
   #load_state_dict: True
   #strict_loading: False
@@ -105,18 +105,21 @@ trainer:
   gc_mode: None # "global_step"
 
   weight_dtype: bfloat16
+  amp: False
 
   backend: deepspeed
   deepspeed:
     zero_optimization_level: 0
     use_compression_training: True
 
+  activation_checkpointing: True
+
 inference:
   use_vocos: True
-  normalize: False # do NOT change this unless you know exactly what you are doing.
+  normalize: False
 
 bitsandbytes:
   enabled: False
-  injects: True
-  linear: True
-  embedding: True
+  injects: False
+  linear: False
+  embedding: False
diff --git a/vall_e/engines/deepspeed.py b/vall_e/engines/deepspeed.py
index b20cb40..a00aa86 100755
--- a/vall_e/engines/deepspeed.py
+++ b/vall_e/engines/deepspeed.py
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ class Engine(DeepSpeedEngine):
 		kwargs['config_class'] = DeepSpeedConfig(kwargs['config'])
 
 		stats = {
-			"global_steps": 0,
-			"micro_steps": 0,
+			"global_step": 0,
+			"micro_step": 0,
 			"global_samples": 0,
 			"tokens_processed": 0,
 		}
@@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ class Engine(DeepSpeedEngine):
 		super().__init__(None, *args, **kwargs)
 		self._frozen_params = set()
 
-		self.global_steps = stats["global_steps"]
-		self.micro_steps = stats["micro_steps"]
+		self.global_steps = stats["global_step"]
+		self.micro_steps = stats["micro_step"]
 		self.global_samples = stats["global_samples"]
 		self.tokens_processed = stats["tokens_processed"]
 
diff --git a/vall_e/utils/trainer.py b/vall_e/utils/trainer.py
index d789723..6487b91 100755
--- a/vall_e/utils/trainer.py
+++ b/vall_e/utils/trainer.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ def load_engines():
 
 			# state dict is not just the module, extract the extra trainer details
 			if "stats" in state:
-				additionals = state["stats"]
+				stats = state["stats"]
 
 			if "module" in state:
 				state = state["module"]