diff --git a/whisperx/alignment.py b/whisperx/alignment.py
index 964217e..36c792e 100644
--- a/whisperx/alignment.py
+++ b/whisperx/alignment.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ DEFAULT_ALIGN_MODELS_HF = {
     "sk": "comodoro/wav2vec2-xls-r-300m-sk-cv8",
     "sl": "anton-l/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-slovenian",
     "hr": "classla/wav2vec2-xls-r-parlaspeech-hr",
+    "ro": "gigant/romanian-wav2vec2",
 }