diff --git a/worker/transcribee_worker/config.py b/worker/transcribee_worker/config.py
index 9dbaec9a..a14b4859 100644
--- a/worker/transcribee_worker/config.py
+++ b/worker/transcribee_worker/config.py
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
 
     CPU_THREADS: int = 4
 
+    COMPUTE_TYPE: str = "int8"
+
     class Config:
         env_file = ".env"
 
diff --git a/worker/transcribee_worker/whisper_transcribe.py b/worker/transcribee_worker/whisper_transcribe.py
index 6e27833c..c901281d 100644
--- a/worker/transcribee_worker/whisper_transcribe.py
+++ b/worker/transcribee_worker/whisper_transcribe.py
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ def transcribe_clean(
         strict_sentence_paragraphs,
     )
     model = WhisperModel(
+        compute_type=settings.COMPUTE_TYPE,
         cpu_threads=settings.CPU_THREADS,
         model_size_or_path=model_name,
         download_root=str((settings.MODELS_DIR / "faster_whisper").absolute()),