diff --git a/api.py b/api.py
index 88d2e61..571fb9b 100644
--- a/api.py
+++ b/api.py
@@ -99,10 +99,11 @@ class ImageCaptioningInput(BaseModel):
 
 class WhisperInputs(BaseModel):
     audio: str
-    task: typing.Literal["translate", "transcribe"] = "transcribe"
-    language: str = None
+    task: typing.Literal["translate", "transcribe"] | None = None
+    language: str | None = None
     return_timestamps: bool = False
-    decoder_kwargs: dict = None
+    max_length: int | None = None
+    decoder_kwargs: dict | None = None
 
     chunk_length_s: float = 30
     stride_length_s: typing.Tuple[float, float] = (6, 0)
diff --git a/chart/model-values.yaml b/chart/model-values.yaml
index d430eb1..6b177d1 100644
--- a/chart/model-values.yaml
+++ b/chart/model-values.yaml
@@ -199,6 +199,36 @@ deployments:
         Sunbird/asr-whisper-large-v3-salt
         Jacaranda-Health/ASR-STT
 
+  - name: "common-whisper-akera-kikuyu-short"
+    image: "crgooeyprodwestus1.azurecr.io/gooey-gpu-common:9"
+    autoscaling:
+      minReplicaCount: 0
+    limits_gpu: "5Gi"
+    limits:
+      memory: "13Gi"
+    env:
+      QUEUE_PREFIX: "gooey-gpu/short"
+      WHISPER_TOKENIZER_FROM: "akera/whisper-large-v3-kik-full_v2"
+      IMPORTS: |-
+        common.whisper
+      WHISPER_MODEL_IDS: |-
+        akera/whisper-large-v3-kik-full_v2
+
+  - name: "common-whisper-akera-kikuyu-long"
+    image: "crgooeyprodwestus1.azurecr.io/gooey-gpu-common:9"
+    autoscaling:
+      minReplicaCount: 0
+    limits_gpu: "10Gi"
+    limits:
+      memory: "27Gi"
+    env:
+      QUEUE_PREFIX: "gooey-gpu/long"
+      WHISPER_TOKENIZER_FROM: "akera/whisper-large-v3-kik-full_v2"
+      IMPORTS: |-
+        common.whisper
+      WHISPER_MODEL_IDS: |-
+        akera/whisper-large-v3-kik-full_v2
+
   - name: "common-whisper-en-short"
     image: *commonImgOld
     limits:
diff --git a/common/whisper.py b/common/whisper.py
index 81ced96..5580923 100644
--- a/common/whisper.py
+++ b/common/whisper.py
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ def whisper(pipeline: PipelineInfo, inputs: WhisperInputs) -> AsrOutput:
         generate_kwargs["language"] = inputs.language
     if inputs.task:
         generate_kwargs["task"] = inputs.task
+    if inputs.max_length:
+        generate_kwargs["max_length"] = inputs.max_length
     if generate_kwargs:
         kwargs["generate_kwargs"] = generate_kwargs