diff --git a/scraibe/diarisation.py b/scraibe/diarisation.py
index d70df99..6e6d6b9 100644
--- a/scraibe/diarisation.py
+++ b/scraibe/diarisation.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ from torch.cuda import is_available
 from huggingface_hub import HfApi
 from huggingface_hub.utils import RepositoryNotFoundError
 
-from .misc import PYANNOTE_DEFAULT_PATH, PYANNOTE_DEFAULT_CONFIG
+from .misc import PYANNOTE_DEFAULT_PATH, PYANNOTE_DEFAULT_CONFIG, SCRAIBE_TORCH_DEVICE
 Annotation = TypeVar('Annotation')
 
 TOKEN_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(
@@ -190,8 +190,7 @@ class Diariser:
                    cache_token: bool = False,
                    cache_dir: Union[Path, str] = PYANNOTE_DEFAULT_PATH,
                    hparams_file: Union[str, Path] = None,
-                   device: str = None,
-                   *args, **kwargs
+                   device: str = SCRAIBE_TORCH_DEVICE,
                    ) -> Pipeline:
         """
         Loads a pretrained model from pyannote.audio, 
@@ -283,10 +282,6 @@ class Diariser:
                              'or from huggingface.co models. Please check your token'
                              'or your local model path')
 
-        # try to move the model to the device
-        if device is None:
-            device = "cuda" if is_available() else "cpu"
-
         # torch_device is renamed from torch.device to avoid name conflict
         _model = _model.to(torch_device(device))