diff --git a/scraibe/diarisation.py b/scraibe/diarisation.py
index f90bcdb..3e6047c 100644
--- a/scraibe/diarisation.py
+++ b/scraibe/diarisation.py
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ Usage:
     diarisation_output = model.diarization("path/to/audiofile.wav")
 """
 
+import warnings
 import os
+import yaml
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import TypeVar, Union
 
@@ -213,7 +215,39 @@ class Diariser:
             model = 'pyannote/speaker-diarization'
         elif not os.path.exists(model) and use_auth_token is not None:
             model = 'pyannote/speaker-diarization'
-            
+        elif os.path.exists(model) and not use_auth_token:
+            # check if model can be found locally nearby the config file
+            with open(model, 'r') as file:
+                config = yaml.safe_load(file)
+                
+                path_to_model = config['pipeline']['params']['segmentation']
+
+                if not os.path.exists(path_to_model):
+                    warnings.warn(f"Model not found at {path_to_model}. "\
+                        "Trying to find it nearby the config file.")
+                    
+                    pwd = file.split("/")[:-1]
+                    path_to_model = os.path.join(pwd, "pytorch_model.bin")
+
+                    if not os.path.exists(path_to_model):
+                        warnings.warn(f"Model not found at {path_to_model}. \
+                            'Trying to find it nearby .bin files instead.")
+                        # list elementes with the ending .bin
+                        bin_files = [f for f in os.listdir(pwd) if f.endswith(".bin")]
+                        if len(bin_files) == 1:
+                            path_to_model = os.path.join(pwd, bin_files[0])
+                        else:
+                            warnings.warn("Found more than one .bin file. "\
+                                "or none. Please specify the path to the model " \
+                                "or setup a huggingface token.")
+                                                
+                    warnings.warn(f"Found model at {path_to_model} overwriting config file.")
+                    
+                    config['pipeline']['params']['segmentation'] = path_to_model
+                    
+                    with open(model, 'w') as file:
+                        yaml.dump(config, file)
+                              
         _model =  Pipeline.from_pretrained(model,
                                            use_auth_token = use_auth_token,
                                            cache_dir = cache_dir,