From 808714cfae07f9a3fe2616e443e5e825bbe7317e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Joanis <Eric.Joanis@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:20:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] perf: tuck away imports not needed to display cli help

---
 fs2/cli/synthesize.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs2/cli/synthesize.py b/fs2/cli/synthesize.py
index 77415f6..6ee03bf 100644
--- a/fs2/cli/synthesize.py
+++ b/fs2/cli/synthesize.py
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 from everyvoice.utils import slugify, spinner
 from loguru import logger
 from merge_args import merge_args
-from tqdm import tqdm
 
 from ..type_definitions import SynthesizeOutputFormats
 from ..utils import truncate_basename
@@ -359,6 +358,8 @@ def synthesize_helper(
     via the gradio demo.
     """
 
+    from tqdm import tqdm
+
     from ..dataset import FastSpeech2SynthesisDataModule
 
     if (