diff --git a/audiomate/corpus/io/tatoeba.py b/audiomate/corpus/io/tatoeba.py
index 9ec18a7..5fa479c 100644
--- a/audiomate/corpus/io/tatoeba.py
+++ b/audiomate/corpus/io/tatoeba.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 from audiomate.utils import download
 from audiomate.utils import textfile
 from . import base
+import time
 
 logger = logutil.getLogger()
 
@@ -137,6 +138,15 @@ def _download_audio_files(self, records, target_path):
             os.makedirs(audio_folder, exist_ok=True)
 
             download_url = 'https://audio.tatoeba.org/sentences/{}/{}.mp3'.format(record[2], record[0])
+            while True:
+                try:
+                    download.download_file(download_url, audio_file)
+                except ConnectionError as e:
+                    logger.info('Remote end closed connection without response. Trying again in 5 seconds... %s', e)
+                    time.sleep(5)
+                    continue
+                break
+
             download.download_file(download_url, audio_file)
 
 
diff --git a/audiomate/corpus/io/voxforge.py b/audiomate/corpus/io/voxforge.py
index d5b464d..58ebf28 100644
--- a/audiomate/corpus/io/voxforge.py
+++ b/audiomate/corpus/io/voxforge.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 import re
 import tarfile
 import shutil
+import time
 
 import requests
 
@@ -90,7 +91,14 @@ def download_files(self, file_urls, target_path):
             target_file_path = os.path.join(target_path, file_name)
             url_to_target[file_url] = target_file_path
 
-        dl_result = download.download_files(url_to_target, num_threads=self.num_workers)
+        while True:
+            try:
+                dl_result = download.download_files(url_to_target, num_threads=self.num_workers)
+            except ConnectionError as e:
+                logger.info('Remote end closed connection without response. Trying again in 5 seconds... %s', e)
+                time.sleep(5)
+                continue
+            break
 
         downloaded_files = []
         for url, status, path_or_msg in dl_result: