diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index be5a120..d43fdd1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -165,6 +165,10 @@ compute_type = "float16" # change to "int8" if low on GPU mem (may reduce accura
 # 1. Transcribe with original whisper (batched)
 model = whisperx.load_model("large-v2", device, compute_type=compute_type)
 
+# save model to local path (optional)
+# model_dir = "/path/"
+# model = whisperx.load_model("large-v2", device, compute_type=compute_type, download_root=model_dir)
+
 audio = whisperx.load_audio(audio_file)
 result = model.transcribe(audio, batch_size=batch_size)
 print(result["segments"]) # before alignment