diff --git a/Contributing.md b/Contributing.md
index 25002412..668becad 100644
--- a/Contributing.md
+++ b/Contributing.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ This repo follows the [Contributor Covenant](http://contributor-covenant.org/ver
 
 This repo uses automated tools to standardize the formatting of code, text files and
 commits.
- - [Pre-commit hooks](#pre-commit-hooks) validate and automatically apply code
+ - [Pre-commit/prek hooks](#pre-commitprek-hooks) validate and automatically apply code
    formatting rules.
  - [gitlint](#gitlint) is used as a commit message hook to validate that
    commit messages follow the convention.
@@ -28,19 +28,19 @@ Run these commands in each of your sandboxes to enable our pre-commit hooks and
 
 ```sh
 pip install -e '.[dev]'
-pre-commit install
+prek install
 gitlint install-hook
-git submodule foreach 'pre-commit install'
+git submodule foreach 'prek install'
 git submodule foreach 'gitlint install-hook'
 ```
 
-## Pre-commit hooks
+## Pre-commit/prek hooks
 
 The ReadAlong Studio team has agreed to systematically use a number of pre-commit hooks to
-normalize formatting of code. You need to install and enable pre-commit to have these used
-automatically when you do your own commits.
+normalize formatting of code. You need to install and enable prek (fast replacement of pre-commit)
+to have these used automatically when you do your own commits.
 
-Pre-commit hooks enabled:
+Pre-commit hooks we use:
 - check-yaml validates YAML files
 - end-of-file-fixer makes sure each text file ends with exactly one newline character
 - trailing-whitespace removes superfluous whitespace at the end of lines in text files
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Pre-commit hooks enabled:
 ### Enabling pre-commit hooks
 
 All the pre-commit hooks are executed using a tool called
-[pre-commit](https://pre-commit.com/). Once you enable pre-commit, it will run all the
+[prek](https://prek.j178.dev/). Once you enable prek, it will run all the
 hooks each time you try to commit anything in this repo.
 
 The developer dependencies are listed in the dev extra in [pyproject.toml](pyproject.toml)
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ to make them easy to install:
 
 ```sh
 pip install -e '.[dev]'
-pre-commit install
+prek install
 ```
 
 Note that you have to run the second command in every sandbox you create, so please
@@ -142,13 +142,13 @@ gitlint install-hook
 
 ### Initializing submodules too
 
-The EveryVoice repo uses submodules, and the gitlint and pre-commit
+The EveryVoice repo uses submodules, and the gitlint and prek/pre-commit
 initialization has to be done separately in each of one them. You can cd into
 each submodule directory and run the same commands shown above, but there is a
 shortcut:
 
 ```sh
-git submodule foreach 'pre-commit install'
+git submodule foreach 'prek install'
 git submodule foreach 'gitlint install-hook'
 ```
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c43dbe99..495eeaec 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ Please make sure our standard Git hooks are activated, by running these commands
 
 ```sh
 pip install -e '.[dev]'
-pre-commit install
+prek install
 gitlint install-hook
-git submodule foreach 'pre-commit install'
+git submodule foreach 'prek install'
 git submodule foreach 'gitlint install-hook'
 ```
 
diff --git a/docs/install.md b/docs/install.md
index 8fcf9eca..604e18be 100644
--- a/docs/install.md
+++ b/docs/install.md
@@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ Before you can run the test suites, you'll also need to install the dev dependen
 If you plan to contribute to the project, please install our Git hooks:
 
 ```sh
-pre-commit install
+prek install
 gitlint install-hook
-git submodule foreach 'pre-commit install'
+git submodule foreach 'prek install'
 git submodule foreach 'gitlint install-hook'
 ```
diff --git a/everyvoice/model/feature_prediction/FastSpeech2_lightning b/everyvoice/model/feature_prediction/FastSpeech2_lightning
index 0f334ee8..733d96ac 160000
--- a/everyvoice/model/feature_prediction/FastSpeech2_lightning
+++ b/everyvoice/model/feature_prediction/FastSpeech2_lightning
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 0f334ee80dbf0aa44bfa1aff1d6533751ad28f0c
+Subproject commit 733d96ac7c83e3b6cbaa2d8f479c4e92aa54e4ef
diff --git a/everyvoice/model/vocoder/HiFiGAN_iSTFT_lightning b/everyvoice/model/vocoder/HiFiGAN_iSTFT_lightning
index c4939894..08608207 160000
--- a/everyvoice/model/vocoder/HiFiGAN_iSTFT_lightning
+++ b/everyvoice/model/vocoder/HiFiGAN_iSTFT_lightning
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit c493989454dc222d14662aca587657dd8e943958
+Subproject commit 08608207269a6ae2ad4429f047a359cfa3e125af
diff --git a/make-everyvoice-env b/make-everyvoice-env
index 4784c10b..27c21c6a 100755
--- a/make-everyvoice-env
+++ b/make-everyvoice-env
@@ -246,8 +246,8 @@ echo "Environment creation completed with success"
 echo ""
 echo "Configuring your sandbox in case you want to contribute to the project."
 if [[ ! -f .git/hooks/pre-commit ]]; then
-    if ! pre-commit install; then
-        echo "Error running \"pre-commit install\". Your \"$ENV2ACTIVATE\" environment is good, but if you want to submit contributions to the project, please rerun \"pre-commit install\" in your sandbox."
+    if ! prek install; then
+        echo "Error running \"prek install\". Your \"$ENV2ACTIVATE\" environment is good, but if you want to submit contributions to the project, please rerun \"prek install\" in your sandbox."
     fi
 fi
 if [[ ! -f .git/hooks/commit-msg ]]; then
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ if [[ ! -f .git/hooks/commit-msg ]]; then
     fi
 fi
 # Try to install pre-commit and gitlint hooks in the submodules but don't complain on failure
-git submodule foreach 'test -f $(cat .git|cut -f2 -d" ")/hooks/pre-commit || pre-commit install || true' >& /dev/null || true
+git submodule foreach 'test -f $(cat .git|cut -f2 -d" ")/hooks/pre-commit || prek install || true' >& /dev/null || true
 git submodule foreach 'test -f $(cat .git|cut -f2 -d" ")/hooks/commit-msg || gitlint install-hook || true' >& /dev/null || true
 
 echo ""
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3a2962e7..02cf5145 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ dev = [
   "gitlint-core>=0.19.0",
   "isort>=5.10.1",
   "mypy>=1.8.0",
-  "pre-commit>=3.2.0",
+  "prek>=0.3",
   "types-pyyaml>=6.0.5",
   "types-requests>=2.27.11",
   "types-setuptools>=57.4.9",