diff --git a/whisperx/alignment.py b/whisperx/alignment.py
index 5ff09d9c..42d9b176 100644
--- a/whisperx/alignment.py
+++ b/whisperx/alignment.py
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ def load_align_model(language_code, device, model_name=None, model_dir=None):
         align_dictionary = {c.lower(): i for i, c in enumerate(labels)}
     else:
         try:
-            processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(model_name)
-            align_model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(model_name)
+            processor = Wav2Vec2Processor.from_pretrained(model_name, cache_dir=model_dir)
+            align_model = Wav2Vec2ForCTC.from_pretrained(model_name, cache_dir=model_dir)
         except Exception as e:
             print(e)
             print(f"Error loading model from huggingface, check https://huggingface.co/models for finetuned wav2vec2.0 models")