diff --git a/scraibe/cli.py b/scraibe/cli.py
index eece1bb..ee40c8b 100644
--- a/scraibe/cli.py
+++ b/scraibe/cli.py
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ def cli():
     parser.add_argument("-f", "--audio-files", nargs="+", type=str, default=None,
                         help="List of audio files to transcribe.")
 
+    parser.add_argument("--whisper-type", type=str, default="whisper",
+                        choices=["whisper", "whisperx"],
+                        help="Type of Whisper model to use ('whisper' or 'whisperx').")
+    
     parser.add_argument("--whisper-model-name", default="medium",
                         help="Name of the Whisper model to use.")
 
@@ -92,8 +96,10 @@ def cli():
         set_num_threads(arg_dict.pop("num_threads"))
 
     class_kwargs = {'whisper_model': arg_dict.pop("whisper_model_name"),
+                    'whisper_type':arg_dict.pop("whisper_type"),
                     'dia_model': arg_dict.pop("diarization_directory"),
-                    'use_auth_token': arg_dict.pop("hf_token")}
+                    'use_auth_token': arg_dict.pop("hf_token"),
+                    }
 
     if arg_dict["whisper_model_directory"]:
         class_kwargs["download_root"] = arg_dict.pop("whisper_model_directory")