diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 010dbc86..520c2964 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ ENV SCARF_NO_ANALYTICS true
 ENV DO_NOT_TRACK true
 
 #Whisper TTS Settings
-ENV WHISPER_DIR="/app/backend/data/cache/whisper/models"
 ENV WHISPER_MODEL="base"
+ENV WHISPER_MODEL_DIR="/app/backend/data/cache/whisper/models"
 
 WORKDIR /app/backend
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ RUN apt-get update \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 # RUN python -c "from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; model = SentenceTransformer('all-MiniLM-L6-v2')"
-RUN python -c "import os; from faster_whisper import WhisperModel; WhisperModel(os.environ['WHISPER_MODEL'], device='cpu', compute_type='int8', download_root=os.environ['WHISPER_DIR'])"
+RUN python -c "import os; from faster_whisper import WhisperModel; WhisperModel(os.environ['WHISPER_MODEL'], device='cpu', compute_type='int8', download_root=os.environ['WHISPER_MODEL_DIR'])"
 
 
 # copy embedding weight from build
diff --git a/backend/apps/audio/main.py b/backend/apps/audio/main.py
index 85937de8..86e79c47 100644
--- a/backend/apps/audio/main.py
+++ b/backend/apps/audio/main.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from utils.utils import (
 )
 from utils.misc import calculate_sha256
 
-from config import CACHE_DIR, UPLOAD_DIR, WHISPER_MODEL_NAME
+from config import CACHE_DIR, UPLOAD_DIR, WHISPER_MODEL, WHISPER_MODEL_DIR
 
 app = FastAPI()
 app.add_middleware(
@@ -54,14 +54,11 @@ def transcribe(
             f.write(contents)
             f.close()
 
-        model_name = os.getenv('WHISPER_MODEL', WHISPER_MODEL_NAME)
-        download_root = os.getenv('WHISPER_DIR', f"{CACHE_DIR}/whisper/models")
-
         model = WhisperModel(
-            model_name,
+            WHISPER_MODEL,
             device="cpu",
             compute_type="int8",
-            download_root=download_root,
+            download_root=WHISPER_MODEL_DIR,
         )
 
         segments, info = model.transcribe(file_path, beam_size=5)
diff --git a/backend/config.py b/backend/config.py
index 81b90084..f2e25c6a 100644
--- a/backend/config.py
+++ b/backend/config.py
@@ -136,4 +136,6 @@ CHUNK_OVERLAP = 100
 ####################################
 # Transcribe
 ####################################
-WHISPER_MODEL_NAME = "base"
+
+WHISPER_MODEL = os.getenv("WHISPER_MODEL", "base")
+WHISPER_MODEL_DIR = os.getenv("WHISPER_MODEL_DIR", f"{CACHE_DIR}/whisper/models")