diff --git a/noisereduce/spectralgate/__init__.py b/noisereduce/spectralgate/__init__.py
index 8d22102..7611305 100644
--- a/noisereduce/spectralgate/__init__.py
+++ b/noisereduce/spectralgate/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
 from .nonstationary import SpectralGateNonStationary
 from .stationary import SpectralGateStationary
-from .streamed_torch_gate import StreamedTorchGate
+try:
+    import torch
+    TORCH_AVAILABLE = True
+except ImportError:
+    TORCH_AVAILABLE = False
+if TORCH_AVAILABLE:
+    from .streamed_torch_gate import StreamedTorchGate