diff --git a/bark/generation.py b/bark/generation.py
index 54f98709..a3f48194 100644
--- a/bark/generation.py
+++ b/bark/generation.py
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ def _load_model(ckpt_path, device, use_small=False, model_type="text"):
     if not os.path.exists(ckpt_path):
         logger.info(f"{model_type} model not found, downloading into `{CACHE_DIR}`.")
         _download(model_info["repo_id"], model_info["file_name"])
-    checkpoint = torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location=device)
+    checkpoint = torch.load(ckpt_path, weights_only=False, map_location=device)
     # this is a hack
     model_args = checkpoint["model_args"]
     if "input_vocab_size" not in model_args: