diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1a839587b378b5fb6ed04e04df738b3f01713a7a..e36b3d50d29ba133071a8a80c78b68b486f258d3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 nltk==3.8.1
 parler_tts @ git+https://github.com/huggingface/parler-tts.git
+melotts @ git+https://github.com/andimarafioti/MeloTTS.git  # made a copy of MeloTTS to have compatible versions of transformers
 torch==2.4.0
 sounddevice==0.5.0
 lightning-whisper-mlx==0.0.10