diff --git a/tribev2/eventstransforms.py b/tribev2/eventstransforms.py
index 1fd0c69..4e4444b 100644
--- a/tribev2/eventstransforms.py
+++ b/tribev2/eventstransforms.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def _get_transcript_from_audio(wav_filename: Path, language: str) -> pd.DataFram
             raise ValueError(f"Language {language} not supported")
 
         device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
-        compute_type = "float16"
+        compute_type = "float16" if device == "cuda" else "int8"
 
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as output_dir:
             logger.info("Running whisperx via uvx...")