diff --git a/tests/zoo_tests/test_models.py b/tests/zoo_tests/test_models.py
index b7945d6e82..932c6ab5cf 100644
--- a/tests/zoo_tests/test_models.py
+++ b/tests/zoo_tests/test_models.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 from TTS.utils.generic_utils import get_user_data_dir
 from TTS.utils.manage import ModelManager
 
-MODELS_WITH_SEP_TESTS = ["bark", "xtts"]
+MODELS_WITH_SEP_TESTS = ["bark", "tortoise", "xtts"]
 
 
 def run_models(offset=0, step=1):
@@ -77,6 +77,14 @@ def test_xtts():
     )
 
 
+def test_tortoise():
+    output_path = os.path.join(get_tests_output_path(), "output.wav")
+    run_cli(
+        f" tts --model_name  tts_models/en/multi-dataset/tortoise-v2 "
+        f'--text "This is an example." --out_path "{output_path}" --progress_bar False --use_cuda True'
+    )
+
+
 def test_bark():
     """Bark is too big to run on github actions. We need to test it locally"""
     output_path = os.path.join(get_tests_output_path(), "output.wav")