diff --git a/whisperx/asr.py b/whisperx/asr.py
index d0e6962..09454c9 100644
--- a/whisperx/asr.py
+++ b/whisperx/asr.py
@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ from .audio import N_SAMPLES, SAMPLE_RATE, load_audio, log_mel_spectrogram
 from .vad import load_vad_model, merge_chunks
 from .types import TranscriptionResult, SingleSegment
 
+def find_numeral_symbol_tokens(tokenizer):
+    numeral_symbol_tokens = []
+    for i in range(tokenizer.eot):
+        token = tokenizer.decode([i]).removeprefix(" ")
+        has_numeral_symbol = any(c in "0123456789%$£" for c in token)
+        if has_numeral_symbol:
+            numeral_symbol_tokens.append(i)
+    return numeral_symbol_tokens
+
 def load_model(whisper_arch,
                device,
                device_index=0,
@@ -67,11 +76,22 @@ def load_model(whisper_arch,
         "max_initial_timestamp": 0.0,
         "word_timestamps": False,
         "prepend_punctuations": "\"'“¿([{-",
-        "append_punctuations": "\"'.。,，!！?？:：”)]}、"
+        "append_punctuations": "\"'.。,，!！?？:：”)]}、",
+        "suppress_numerals": False,
     }
 
     if asr_options is not None:
         default_asr_options.update(asr_options)
+
+    if default_asr_options["suppress_numerals"]:
+        if tokenizer is None:
+            tokenizer = faster_whisper.tokenizer.Tokenizer(model.hf_tokenizer, model.model.is_multilingual, task=task, language="en")
+        numeral_symbol_tokens = find_numeral_symbol_tokens(tokenizer)
+        print(f"Suppressing numeral and symbol tokens: {numeral_symbol_tokens}")
+        default_asr_options["suppress_tokens"] += numeral_symbol_tokens
+        default_asr_options["suppress_tokens"] = list(set(default_asr_options["suppress_tokens"]))
+    del default_asr_options["suppress_numerals"]
+
     default_asr_options = faster_whisper.transcribe.TranscriptionOptions(**default_asr_options)
 
     default_vad_options = {
@@ -119,13 +139,10 @@ class WhisperModel(faster_whisper.WhisperModel):
         result = self.model.generate(
                 encoder_output,
                 [prompt] * batch_size,
-                # length_penalty=options.length_penalty,
-                # max_length=self.max_length,
-                # return_scores=True,
-                # return_no_speech_prob=True,
-                # suppress_blank=options.suppress_blank,
-                # suppress_tokens=options.suppress_tokens,
-                # max_initial_timestamp_index=max_initial_timestamp_index,
+                length_penalty=options.length_penalty,
+                max_length=self.max_length,
+                suppress_blank=options.suppress_blank,
+                suppress_tokens=options.suppress_tokens,
             )
 
         tokens_batch = [x.sequences_ids[0] for x in result]
diff --git a/whisperx/transcribe.py b/whisperx/transcribe.py
index 691e3f9..3bb1a36 100644
--- a/whisperx/transcribe.py
+++ b/whisperx/transcribe.py
@@ -51,9 +51,11 @@ def cli():
     parser.add_argument("--best_of", type=optional_int, default=5, help="number of candidates when sampling with non-zero temperature")
     parser.add_argument("--beam_size", type=optional_int, default=5, help="number of beams in beam search, only applicable when temperature is zero")
     parser.add_argument("--patience", type=float, default=None, help="optional patience value to use in beam decoding, as in https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05424, the default (1.0) is equivalent to conventional beam search")
-    parser.add_argument("--length_penalty", type=float, default=None, help="optional token length penalty coefficient (alpha) as in https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144, uses simple length normalization by default")
+    parser.add_argument("--length_penalty", type=float, default=1.0, help="optional token length penalty coefficient (alpha) as in https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144, uses simple length normalization by default")
 
     parser.add_argument("--suppress_tokens", type=str, default="-1", help="comma-separated list of token ids to suppress during sampling; '-1' will suppress most special characters except common punctuations")
+    parser.add_argument("--suppress_numerals", action="store_true", help="whether to suppress numeric symbols and currency symbols during sampling, since wav2vec2 cannot align them correctly")
+
     parser.add_argument("--initial_prompt", type=str, default=None, help="optional text to provide as a prompt for the first window.")
     parser.add_argument("--condition_on_previous_text", type=str2bool, default=False, help="if True, provide the previous output of the model as a prompt for the next window; disabling may make the text inconsistent across windows, but the model becomes less prone to getting stuck in a failure loop")
     parser.add_argument("--fp16", type=str2bool, default=True, help="whether to perform inference in fp16; True by default")
@@ -130,6 +132,8 @@ def cli():
         "no_speech_threshold": args.pop("no_speech_threshold"),
         "condition_on_previous_text": False,
         "initial_prompt": args.pop("initial_prompt"),
+        "suppress_tokens": [int(x) for x in args.pop("suppress_tokens").split(",")],
+        "suppress_numerals": args.pop("suppress_numerals"),
     }
 
     writer = get_writer(output_format, output_dir)