diff --git a/TTS/tts/models/base_tts.py b/TTS/tts/models/base_tts.py
index 9f4d70c8..d4044c7e 100644
--- a/TTS/tts/models/base_tts.py
+++ b/TTS/tts/models/base_tts.py
@@ -72,35 +72,21 @@ class BaseTTS(BaseModel):
     def get_speaker_manager(config: Coqpit, restore_path: str, data: List, out_path: str = None) -> SpeakerManager:
         return get_speaker_manager(config, restore_path, data, out_path)
 
-    def init_multispeaker(self, config: Coqpit, data: List = None):
-        """Initialize a speaker embedding layer if needen and define expected embedding channel size for defining
-        `in_channels` size of the connected layers.
-
-        This implementation yields 3 possible outcomes:
-
-        1. If `config.use_speaker_embedding` and `config.use_d_vector_file are False, do nothing.
-        2. If `config.use_d_vector_file` is True, set expected embedding channel size to `config.d_vector_dim` or 512.
-        3. If `config.use_speaker_embedding`, initialize a speaker embedding layer with channel size of
-        `config.d_vector_dim` or 512.
-
-        You can override this function for new models.0
+    def init_multispeaker(self, config: Coqpit):
+        """Init speaker embedding layer if `use_speaker_embedding` is True and set the expected speaker embedding
+        vector dimension in the network. If model uses d-vectors, then it only sets the expected dimension.
 
         Args:
             config (Coqpit): Model configuration.
-            data (List, optional): Dataset items to infer number of speakers. Defaults to None.
         """
         # init speaker manager
-        self.speaker_manager = get_speaker_manager(config, data=data)
+        if self.speaker_manager is None:
+            raise ValueError(" > SpeakerManager is not provided. You must provide the SpeakerManager before initializing a multi-speaker model.")
+
+        print(f" > Number of speakers : {len(self.speaker_manager.speaker_ids)}")
 
         # set number of speakers - if num_speakers is set in config, use it, otherwise use speaker_manager
-        if data is not None or self.speaker_manager.speaker_ids:
-            self.num_speakers = self.speaker_manager.num_speakers
-        else:
-            self.num_speakers = (
-                config.num_speakers
-                if "num_speakers" in config and config.num_speakers != 0
-                else self.speaker_manager.num_speakers
-            )
+        self.num_speakers = self.speaker_manager.num_speakers
 
         # set ultimate speaker embedding size
         if config.use_speaker_embedding or config.use_d_vector_file:
@@ -109,6 +95,7 @@ class BaseTTS(BaseModel):
             )
         # init speaker embedding layer
         if config.use_speaker_embedding and not config.use_d_vector_file:
+            print(" > Init speaker_embedding layer.")
             self.speaker_embedding = nn.Embedding(self.num_speakers, self.embedded_speaker_dim)
             self.speaker_embedding.weight.data.normal_(0, 0.3)
 
@@ -345,3 +332,17 @@ class BaseTTS(BaseModel):
                 outputs_dict["outputs"]["alignments"], output_fig=False
             )
         return test_figures, test_audios
+
+    def on_init_start(self, trainer):
+        """Save the speaker.json at the beginning of the training. And update the config.json with the
+        speakers.json file path."""
+        if self.speaker_manager is not None:
+            output_path = os.path.join(trainer.output_path, "speakers.json")
+            self.speaker_manager.save_speaker_ids_to_file(output_path)
+            trainer.config.speakers_file = output_path
+            # some models don't have `model_args` set
+            if hasattr(trainer.config, "model_args"):
+                trainer.config.model_args.speakers_file = output_path
+            trainer.config.save_json(os.path.join(trainer.output_path, "config.json"))
+            print(f" > `speakers.json` is saved to {output_path}.")
+            print(" > `speakers_file` is updated in the config.json.")