diff --git a/tests/e2e/online_serving/test_higgs_audio_v3.py b/tests/e2e/online_serving/test_higgs_audio_v3.py
index 2ead1b5da..d26e6bff4 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/online_serving/test_higgs_audio_v3.py
+++ b/tests/e2e/online_serving/test_higgs_audio_v3.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ class TestHiggsAudioV3OnlineHappyPath:
         windows stitch into a coherent PCM stream. The byte-count gate is the same as
         the sync paths; per-chunk audio content is verified offline against Whisper.
 
-        NOTE: ``min_hnr_db=0.0`` sits below the typical speech-noise floor so the
+        NOTE: ``min_hnr_db=0.0`` sit below the typical speech-noise floor so the
         check still catches catastrophic codec failure (silence, white noise, sample
         scramble all give HNR << 0) while allowing for the sliding-window codec's
         slightly-noisier-than-sync output. The default 1.0 dB threshold has only
diff --git a/tests/unit/higgs_audio_v3/test_higgs_audio_v3.py b/tests/unit/higgs_audio_v3/test_higgs_audio_v3.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index b701d9f8b..b92b0095b
--- a/tests/unit/higgs_audio_v3/test_higgs_audio_v3.py
+++ b/tests/unit/higgs_audio_v3/test_higgs_audio_v3.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ without requiring the actual checkpoint or GPU.
 """
 
 import asyncio
+import json
 import time
 from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict
 from types import SimpleNamespace
@@ -1309,7 +1310,10 @@ class TestVoiceCloneReferenceCache:
         parent = tmp_path / "OmniVoice"
         subdir = parent / "audio_tokenizer"
         subdir.mkdir(parents=True)
-        (subdir / "config.json").write_text("{}", encoding="utf-8")
+        (subdir / "config.json").write_text(
+            json.dumps({"model_type": "higgs_audio_v2_tokenizer"}),
+            encoding="utf-8",
+        )
 
         monkeypatch.setenv("HIGGS_AUDIO_TOKENIZER_PATH", str(parent))
         assert tok._resolve_audio_tokenizer_dir() == str(subdir)
@@ -1317,6 +1321,32 @@ class TestVoiceCloneReferenceCache:
         monkeypatch.setenv("HIGGS_AUDIO_TOKENIZER_PATH", str(subdir))
         assert tok._resolve_audio_tokenizer_dir() == str(subdir)
 
+    def test_audio_tokenizer_dir_rejects_omnivoice_config(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+        import huggingface_hub
+        import huggingface_hub.constants as hub_constants
+
+        from vllm_omni.model_executor.models.higgs_audio_v2 import higgs_audio_v2_tokenizer as tok
+
+        parent = tmp_path / "OmniVoice"
+        subdir = parent / "audio_tokenizer"
+        subdir.mkdir(parents=True)
+        (subdir / "config.json").write_text(
+            json.dumps({"model_type": "omnivoice"}),
+            encoding="utf-8",
+        )
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("HIGGS_AUDIO_TOKENIZER_PATH", str(parent))
+        monkeypatch.setenv("HIGGS_AUDIO_V2_TOKENIZER_PATH", "")
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            huggingface_hub,
+            "try_to_load_from_cache",
+            lambda **_: str(subdir / "config.json"),
+        )
+        monkeypatch.setattr(hub_constants, "HF_HUB_CACHE", str(tmp_path / "empty_cache"))
+
+        assert tok._normalize_audio_tokenizer_dir(str(parent)) is None
+        assert tok._resolve_audio_tokenizer_dir() is None
+
     def test_higgs_v3_ref_code_cache_returns_clone(self):
         from vllm_omni.entrypoints.openai.serving_speech import OmniOpenAIServingSpeech
 
diff --git a/vllm_omni/model_executor/models/higgs_audio_v2/higgs_audio_v2_tokenizer.py b/vllm_omni/model_executor/models/higgs_audio_v2/higgs_audio_v2_tokenizer.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 960f6cfef..c3f5024b3
--- a/vllm_omni/model_executor/models/higgs_audio_v2/higgs_audio_v2_tokenizer.py
+++ b/vllm_omni/model_executor/models/higgs_audio_v2/higgs_audio_v2_tokenizer.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ generation.
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import json
 import os
 import re
 from typing import Any
@@ -170,14 +171,25 @@ _AUDIO_TOKENIZER_PATH_ENVS = (
 )
 
 
+def _is_higgs_audio_tokenizer_config(config_path: str) -> bool:
+    try:
+        with open(config_path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            config = json.load(f)
+    except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError):
+        return False
+    return config.get("model_type") == "higgs_audio_v2_tokenizer"
+
+
 def _normalize_audio_tokenizer_dir(path: str) -> str | None:
     if not path:
         return None
     expanded = os.path.abspath(os.path.expanduser(path))
-    if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(expanded, "config.json")):
+    config_path = os.path.join(expanded, "config.json")
+    if os.path.isfile(config_path) and _is_higgs_audio_tokenizer_config(config_path):
         return expanded
     nested = os.path.join(expanded, _K2_OMNIVOICE_SUBDIR)
-    if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(nested, "config.json")):
+    nested_config_path = os.path.join(nested, "config.json")
+    if os.path.isfile(nested_config_path) and _is_higgs_audio_tokenizer_config(nested_config_path):
         return nested
     return None
 
@@ -201,7 +213,9 @@ def _resolve_audio_tokenizer_dir() -> str | None:
         filename=f"{_K2_OMNIVOICE_SUBDIR}/config.json",
     )
     if isinstance(cached_config, str) and os.path.isfile(cached_config):
-        return os.path.dirname(cached_config)
+        candidate = _normalize_audio_tokenizer_dir(os.path.dirname(cached_config))
+        if candidate is not None:
+            return candidate
 
     from huggingface_hub.constants import HF_HUB_CACHE
 
@@ -240,7 +254,9 @@ def _load_audio_tokenizer():
             _K2_OMNIVOICE_REPO,
             allow_patterns=[f"{_K2_OMNIVOICE_SUBDIR}/*"],
         )
-        audio_tokenizer_dir = os.path.join(repo_path, _K2_OMNIVOICE_SUBDIR)
+        audio_tokenizer_dir = _normalize_audio_tokenizer_dir(repo_path)
+        if audio_tokenizer_dir is None:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Downloaded {_K2_OMNIVOICE_REPO} does not contain a valid Higgs audio tokenizer")
     device = current_omni_platform.get_torch_device()
     model = HiggsAudioV2TokenizerModel.from_pretrained(audio_tokenizer_dir).to(device)
     return model.eval()