diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index cefa8e3..315f6e6 100755
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
 import webui as mrq
 
-if 'XDG_CACHE_HOME' not in os.environ:
-    os.environ['XDG_CACHE_HOME'] = os.path.realpath('./models/')
-
 if 'TORTOISE_MODELS_DIR' not in os.environ:
-    os.environ['TORTOISE_MODELS_DIR'] = os.path.realpath('./models/tortoise/')
+    os.environ['TORTOISE_MODELS_DIR'] = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), './models/tortoise/'))
 
 if 'TRANSFORMERS_CACHE' not in os.environ:
-    os.environ['TRANSFORMERS_CACHE'] = os.path.realpath('./models/transformers/')
+    os.environ['TRANSFORMERS_CACHE'] = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), './models/transformers/'))
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     mrq.args = mrq.setup_args()
diff --git a/tortoise/api.py b/tortoise/api.py
index cc006a9..3806cb4 100755
--- a/tortoise/api.py
+++ b/tortoise/api.py
@@ -29,10 +29,8 @@ from tortoise.utils.wav2vec_alignment import Wav2VecAlignment
 from tortoise.utils.device import get_device, get_device_name, get_device_batch_size
 
 pbar = None
-
 STOP_SIGNAL = False
-
-MODELS_DIR = os.environ.get('TORTOISE_MODELS_DIR', os.path.realpath('./models/tortoise/'))
+MODELS_DIR = os.environ.get('TORTOISE_MODELS_DIR', os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), './models/tortoise/')))
 MODELS = {
     'autoregressive.pth': 'https://huggingface.co/jbetker/tortoise-tts-v2/resolve/main/.models/autoregressive.pth',
     'classifier.pth': 'https://huggingface.co/jbetker/tortoise-tts-v2/resolve/main/.models/classifier.pth',