diff --git a/example/index.ts b/example/index.ts
index 69f7928..bf8b576 100644
--- a/example/index.ts
+++ b/example/index.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 import * as tts from '../src';
 import Worker from './worker.ts?worker';
+import Worker2 from './worker2.ts?worker';
 
 // required for e2e
 Object.assign(window, { tts });
 
 document.querySelector('#app')!.innerHTML = `
 <button id="btn" type="button">Predict</button>
+<button id="btn2" type="button">Predict with Session Reuse</button>
 `
 
 document.getElementById('btn')?.addEventListener('click', async () => {
@@ -26,3 +28,21 @@ document.getElementById('btn')?.addEventListener('click', async () => {
     worker.terminate();
   });
 });
+
+const mainWorker = new Worker2();
+
+document.getElementById('btn2')?.addEventListener('click', async () => {
+  mainWorker.postMessage({
+    type: 'init',
+    text: "As the waves crashed against the shore, they carried tales of distant lands and adventures untold.",
+    voiceId: 'en_US-hfc_female-medium',
+  });
+
+  mainWorker.addEventListener('message', (event: MessageEvent<{ type: 'result', audio: Blob }>) => {
+    if (event.data.type != 'result') return;
+
+    const audio = new Audio();
+    audio.src = URL.createObjectURL(event.data.audio);
+    audio.play();
+  }, { once: true });
+});
diff --git a/example/worker.ts b/example/worker.ts
index 5775553..b95f187 100644
--- a/example/worker.ts
+++ b/example/worker.ts
@@ -3,10 +3,12 @@ import * as tts from '../src/index';
 async function main(event: MessageEvent<tts.InferenceConfg & { type: 'init' }>) {
   if (event.data?.type != 'init') return;
 
+  const start = performance.now();
   const blob = await tts.predict({
     text: event.data.text,
     voiceId: event.data.voiceId,
   });
+  console.log('Time taken:', performance.now() - start);
 
   self.postMessage({ type: 'result', audio: blob })
 }
diff --git a/example/worker2.ts b/example/worker2.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..407ef4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/worker2.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import * as tts from '../src/index';
+
+const start = performance.now();
+const TtsSession = await tts.TtsSession.create({
+  voiceId: 'en_US-hfc_female-medium',
+});
+console.log('Time taken to init session:', performance.now() - start);
+
+async function main(event: MessageEvent<tts.InferenceConfg & { type: 'init' }>) {
+  if (event.data?.type != 'init') return;
+
+  const start = performance.now();
+  const blob = await TtsSession.predict(event.data.text);
+  console.log('Time taken:', performance.now() - start);
+
+  self.postMessage({ type: 'result', audio: blob })
+}
+
+self.addEventListener('message', main);
diff --git a/src/inference.ts b/src/inference.ts
index bc39141..e8fd7fd 100644
--- a/src/inference.ts
+++ b/src/inference.ts
@@ -1,65 +1,133 @@
-import { InferenceConfg, ProgressCallback } from "./types";
+import { InferenceConfg, ProgressCallback, VoiceId } from "./types";
 import { HF_BASE, ONNX_BASE, PATH_MAP, WASM_BASE } from './fixtures';
 import { readBlob, writeBlob } from './opfs';
 import { fetchBlob } from './http.js';
 import { pcm2wav } from './audio';
 
-/**
- * Run text to speech inference in new worker thread. Fetches the model
- * first, if it has not yet been saved to opfs yet.
- */
-export async function predict(config: InferenceConfg, callback?: ProgressCallback): Promise<Blob> {
-  const { createPiperPhonemize } = await import('./piper.js');
-  const ort = await import('onnxruntime-web');
-
-  const path = PATH_MAP[config.voiceId];
-  const input = JSON.stringify([{ text: config.text.trim() }]);
-
-  ort.env.allowLocalModels = false;
-  ort.env.wasm.numThreads = navigator.hardwareConcurrency;
-  ort.env.wasm.wasmPaths = ONNX_BASE;
-
-  const modelConfigBlob = await getBlob(`${HF_BASE}/${path}.json`);
-  const modelConfig = JSON.parse(await modelConfigBlob.text());
-
-  const phonemeIds: string[] = await new Promise(async resolve => {
-    const module = await createPiperPhonemize({
-      print: (data: any) => {
-        resolve(JSON.parse(data).phoneme_ids);
-      },
-      printErr: (message: any) => {
-        throw new Error(message);
-      },
-      locateFile: (url: string) => {
-        if (url.endsWith(".wasm")) return `${WASM_BASE}.wasm`;
-        if (url.endsWith(".data")) return `${WASM_BASE}.data`;
-        return url;
-      }
-    });
+interface TtsSessionOptions {
+  voiceId: VoiceId;
+  progress?: ProgressCallback;
+}
 
-    module.callMain(["-l", modelConfig.espeak.voice, "--input", input, "--espeak_data", "/espeak-ng-data"]);
-  });
+export class TtsSession {
+  ready = false;
+  voiceId: VoiceId;
+  waitReady: Promise<void>;
+  #createPiperPhonemize?: (moduleArg?: {}) => any;
+  #modelConfig?: any;
+  #ort?: typeof import("onnxruntime-web");
+  #ortSession?: import("onnxruntime-web").InferenceSession
+  #progressCallback?: ProgressCallback;
 
-  const speakerId = 0;
-  const sampleRate = modelConfig.audio.sample_rate;
-  const noiseScale = modelConfig.inference.noise_scale;
-  const lengthScale = modelConfig.inference.length_scale;
-  const noiseW = modelConfig.inference.noise_w;
-
-  const modelBlob = await getBlob(`${HF_BASE}/${path}`, callback);
-  const session = await ort.InferenceSession.create(await modelBlob.arrayBuffer());
-  const feeds = {
-    input: new ort.Tensor("int64", phonemeIds, [1, phonemeIds.length]),
-    input_lengths: new ort.Tensor("int64", [phonemeIds.length]),
-    scales: new ort.Tensor("float32", [noiseScale, lengthScale, noiseW])
+  constructor({ voiceId, progress }: TtsSessionOptions) {
+    this.voiceId = voiceId;
+    this.#progressCallback = progress;
+    this.waitReady = this.init();
   }
-  if (Object.keys(modelConfig.speaker_id_map).length) {
-    Object.assign(feeds, { sid: new ort.Tensor("int64", [speakerId]) })
+
+  static async create(options: TtsSessionOptions) {
+    const session = new TtsSession(options);
+    await session.waitReady;
+    return session;
   }
 
-  const { output: { data: pcm } } = await session.run(feeds);
+  async init() {
+    const { createPiperPhonemize } = await import("./piper.js");
+    this.#createPiperPhonemize = createPiperPhonemize;
+    this.#ort = await import("onnxruntime-web");
+
+    this.#ort.env.allowLocalModels = false;
+    this.#ort.env.wasm.numThreads = navigator.hardwareConcurrency;
+    this.#ort.env.wasm.wasmPaths = ONNX_BASE;
+
+    const path = PATH_MAP[this.voiceId];
+    const modelConfigBlob = await getBlob(`${HF_BASE}/${path}.json`);
+    this.#modelConfig = JSON.parse(await modelConfigBlob.text());
+
+    const modelBlob = await getBlob(
+      `${HF_BASE}/${path}`,
+      this.#progressCallback
+    );
+    this.#ortSession = await this.#ort.InferenceSession.create(
+      await modelBlob.arrayBuffer()
+    );
+  }
+
+  async predict(text: string): Promise<Blob> {
+    await this.waitReady; // wait for the session to be ready
+
+    const input = JSON.stringify([{ text: text.trim() }]);
+
+    const phonemeIds: string[] = await new Promise(async (resolve) => {
+      const module = await this.#createPiperPhonemize!({
+        print: (data: any) => {
+          resolve(JSON.parse(data).phoneme_ids);
+        },
+        printErr: (message: any) => {
+          throw new Error(message);
+        },
+        locateFile: (url: string) => {
+          if (url.endsWith(".wasm")) return `${WASM_BASE}.wasm`;
+          if (url.endsWith(".data")) return `${WASM_BASE}.data`;
+          return url;
+        },
+      });
 
-  return new Blob([pcm2wav(pcm as Float32Array, 1, sampleRate)], { type: "audio/x-wav" });
+      module.callMain([
+        "-l",
+        this.#modelConfig.espeak.voice,
+        "--input",
+        input,
+        "--espeak_data",
+        "/espeak-ng-data",
+      ]);
+    });
+
+    const speakerId = 0;
+    const sampleRate = this.#modelConfig.audio.sample_rate;
+    const noiseScale = this.#modelConfig.inference.noise_scale;
+    const lengthScale = this.#modelConfig.inference.length_scale;
+    const noiseW = this.#modelConfig.inference.noise_w;
+
+    const session = this.#ortSession!;
+    const feeds = {
+      input: new this.#ort!.Tensor("int64", phonemeIds, [1, phonemeIds.length]),
+      input_lengths: new this.#ort!.Tensor("int64", [phonemeIds.length]),
+      scales: new this.#ort!.Tensor("float32", [
+        noiseScale,
+        lengthScale,
+        noiseW,
+      ]),
+    };
+    if (Object.keys(this.#modelConfig.speaker_id_map).length) {
+      Object.assign(feeds, {
+        sid: new this.#ort!.Tensor("int64", [speakerId]),
+      });
+    }
+
+    const {
+      output: { data: pcm },
+    } = await session.run(feeds);
+
+    return new Blob([pcm2wav(pcm as Float32Array, 1, sampleRate)], {
+      type: "audio/x-wav",
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Run text to speech inference in new worker thread. Fetches the model
+ * first, if it has not yet been saved to opfs yet.
+ */
+export async function predict(
+  config: InferenceConfg,
+  callback?: ProgressCallback
+): Promise<Blob> {
+  const session = new TtsSession({
+    voiceId: config.voiceId,
+    progress: callback,
+  });
+  return session.predict(config.text);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 2057dee..1058710 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     "target": "ES2020",
     "useDefineForClassFields": true,
     "module": "ESNext",
-    "lib": ["ES2020", "DOM", "DOM.Iterable","WebWorker"],
+    "lib": ["ES2022", "DOM", "DOM.Iterable","WebWorker"],
     "skipLibCheck": true,
     "allowJs": true,