diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 633850b..44de0cf 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 torch>=2
 torchaudio>=2
-faster-whisper==1.0.0
+faster-whisper==1.0.2
 ctranslate2==4.4.0
 transformers
 pandas
diff --git a/whisperx/asr.py b/whisperx/asr.py
index 0ccaf92..42faa30 100644
--- a/whisperx/asr.py
+++ b/whisperx/asr.py
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ def load_model(whisper_arch,
         "max_new_tokens": None,
         "clip_timestamps": None,
         "hallucination_silence_threshold": None,
+        "hotwords": None,
     }
 
     if asr_options is not None: