diff --git a/src/python/txtai/models/pooling/factory.py b/src/python/txtai/models/pooling/factory.py
index 131367d0e..7e399f0da 100644
--- a/src/python/txtai/models/pooling/factory.py
+++ b/src/python/txtai/models/pooling/factory.py
@@ -67,17 +67,12 @@ def method(path):
         # Default method
         method = "meanpooling"
 
-        try:
-            # Load 1_Pooling/config.json file
-            config = PoolingFactory.load(path, "1_Pooling/config.json")
-
-            # Set to CLS pooling if it's enabled and mean pooling is disabled
-            if config["pooling_mode_cls_token"] and not config["pooling_mode_mean_tokens"]:
-                method = "clspooling"
+        # Load 1_Pooling/config.json file
+        config = PoolingFactory.load(path, "1_Pooling/config.json")
 
-        # Ignore this error
-        except OSError:
-            pass
+        # Set to CLS pooling if it's enabled and mean pooling is disabled
+        if config and config["pooling_mode_cls_token"] and not config["pooling_mode_mean_tokens"]:
+            method = "clspooling"
 
         return method
 
@@ -97,13 +92,8 @@ def maxlength(path):
         maxlength = None
 
         # Read max_seq_length from sentence_bert_config.json
-        try:
-            config = PoolingFactory.load(path, "sentence_bert_config.json")
-            maxlength = config.get("max_seq_length")
-
-        # Ignore this error
-        except OSError:
-            pass
+        config = PoolingFactory.load(path, "sentence_bert_config.json")
+        maxlength = config.get("max_seq_length") if config else maxlength
 
         return maxlength
 
@@ -121,6 +111,15 @@ def load(path, name):
         """
 
         # Download file and parse JSON
-        path = cached_file(path_or_repo_id=path, filename=name)
-        with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
-            return json.load(f)
+        config = None
+        try:
+            path = cached_file(path_or_repo_id=path, filename=name)
+            if path:
+                with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+                    config = json.load(f)
+
+        # Ignore this error - invalid repo or directory
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+
+        return config
diff --git a/src/python/txtai/pipeline/audio/texttospeech.py b/src/python/txtai/pipeline/audio/texttospeech.py
index 0315180eb..ed35cc545 100644
--- a/src/python/txtai/pipeline/audio/texttospeech.py
+++ b/src/python/txtai/pipeline/audio/texttospeech.py
@@ -115,13 +115,14 @@ def hasfile(self, path, name):
             True if name exists in path, False otherwise
         """
 
+        exists = False
         try:
             # Check if file exists
-            cached_file(path_or_repo_id=path, filename=name)
+            exists = cached_file(path_or_repo_id=path, filename=name) is not None
         except OSError:
             return False
 
-        return True
+        return exists
 
     def stream(self, texts, speaker):
         """