diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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--- a/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-FROM pytorch/pytorch:1.11.0-cuda11.3-cudnn8-devel
-RUN apt-key adv --fetch-keys https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/3bf863cc.pub && \
-    apt-key adv --fetch-keys https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/machine-learning/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/7fa2af80.pub
-RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y wget && \
-    wget -qO - https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64/7fa2af80.pub | apt-key add - && \
-    apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y git && \
-    apt-get install libsndfile1 -y && \
-    apt-get clean
-    
-RUN pip install --upgrade pip
-RUN pip install --upgrade setuptools
-RUN pip install git+https://github.com/m-bain/whisperx.git
-RUN pip install jupyter ipykernel
-EXPOSE 8888
-# Use external volume for data
-ENV NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES 1
-CMD ["jupyter", "notebook", "--ip=0.0.0.0", "--port=8888", "--NotebookApp.token=''","--NotebookApp.password=''", "--allow-root"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 943c4826..a660d2d5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@
 <!-- <h2 align="left", id="what-is-it">What is it 🔎</h2> -->
 
 
-This repository provides fast automatic speaker recognition (70x realtime with large-v2) with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization.
+This repository provides fast automatic speech recognition (70x realtime with large-v2) with word-level timestamps and speaker diarization.
 
 - ⚡️ Batched inference for 70x realtime transcription using whisper large-v2
 - 🪶 [faster-whisper](https://github.com/guillaumekln/faster-whisper) backend, requires <8GB gpu memory for large-v2 with beam_size=5
 - 🎯 Accurate word-level timestamps using wav2vec2 alignment
-- 👯‍♂️ Multispeaker ASR using speaker diarization from [pyannote-audio](https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio) (labels each segment/word with speaker ID) 
+- 👯‍♂️ Multispeaker ASR using speaker diarization from [pyannote-audio](https://github.com/pyannote/pyannote-audio) (speaker ID labels) 
 - 🗣️ VAD preprocessing, reduces hallucination & batching with no WER degradation
 
 
@@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ GPU execution requires the NVIDIA libraries cuBLAS 11.x and cuDNN 8.x to be inst
 
 ### 2. Install PyTorch2.0, e.g. for Linux and Windows CUDA11.7:
 
-`pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio`
+`conda install pytorch==2.0.0 torchvision==0.15.0 torchaudio==2.0.0 pytorch-cuda=11.7 -c pytorch -c nvidia`
 
-See other methods [here.](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/)
+See other methods [here.](https://pytorch.org/get-started/previous-versions/#v200)
 
 ### 3. Install this repo
 
diff --git a/notebooks/whisperx.ipynb b/notebooks/whisperx.ipynb
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-{
- "cells": [
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": 1,
-   "id": "11fc5246",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [
-    {
-     "name": "stderr",
-     "output_type": "stream",
-     "text": [
-      "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/torchvision/io/image.py:13: UserWarning: Failed to load image Python extension: /opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/torchvision/image.so: undefined symbol: _ZNK3c1010TensorImpl36is_contiguous_nondefault_policy_implENS_12MemoryFormatE\n",
-      "  warn(f\"Failed to load image Python extension: {e}\")\n"
-     ]
-    },
-    {
-     "ename": "OutOfMemoryError",
-     "evalue": "CUDA out of memory. Tried to allocate 20.00 MiB (GPU 0; 7.79 GiB total capacity; 5.76 GiB already allocated; 59.19 MiB free; 6.06 GiB reserved in total by PyTorch) If reserved memory is >> allocated memory try setting max_split_size_mb to avoid fragmentation.  See documentation for Memory Management and PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF",
-     "output_type": "error",
-     "traceback": [
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-     ]
-    }
-   ],
-   "source": [
-    "import whisperx\n",
-    "import whisper\n",
-    "\n",
-    "device = \"cuda\" \n",
-    "audio_file = \"audio.mp3\"\n",
-    "\n",
-    "# transcribe with original whisper\n",
-    "model = whisper.load_model(\"large\", device)\n",
-    "result = model.transcribe(audio_file)\n",
-    "\n",
-    "print(result[\"segments\"]) # before alignment\n",
-    "\n",
-    "# load alignment model and metadata\n",
-    "model_a, metadata = whisperx.load_align_model(language_code=result[\"language\"], device=device)\n",
-    "\n",
-    "# align whisper output\n",
-    "result_aligned = whisperx.align(result[\"segments\"], model_a, metadata, audio_file, device)\n",
-    "\n",
-    "print(result_aligned[\"segments\"]) # after alignment\n",
-    "print(result_aligned[\"word_segments\"]) # after alignment"
-   ]
-  },
-  {
-   "cell_type": "code",
-   "execution_count": null,
-   "id": "b63e6170",
-   "metadata": {},
-   "outputs": [],
-   "source": []
-  }
- ],
- "metadata": {
-  "kernelspec": {
-   "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
-   "language": "python",
-   "name": "python3"
-  },
-  "language_info": {
-   "codemirror_mode": {
-    "name": "ipython",
-    "version": 3
-   },
-   "file_extension": ".py",
-   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
-   "name": "python",
-   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
-   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.8.12"
-  }
- },
- "nbformat": 4,
- "nbformat_minor": 5
-}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c63f6534..1e1e6f5e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 setup(
     name="whisperx",
     py_modules=["whisperx"],
-    version="3.1.0",
-    description="Time-Accurate Automatic Speech Recognition.",
+    version="3.1.1",
+    description="Time-Accurate Automatic Speech Recognition using Whisper.",
     readme="README.md",
     python_requires=">=3.8",
     author="Max Bain",
diff --git a/whisperx/alignment.py b/whisperx/alignment.py
index 0dbf66b9..13dfddc2 100644
--- a/whisperx/alignment.py
+++ b/whisperx/alignment.py
@@ -261,6 +261,10 @@ def align(
                 word_text = "".join(word_chars["char"].tolist()).strip()
                 if len(word_text) == 0:
                     continue
+
+                # dont use space character for alignment
+                word_chars = word_chars[word_chars["char"] != " "]
+
                 word_start = word_chars["start"].min()
                 word_end = word_chars["end"].max()
                 word_score = round(word_chars["score"].mean(), 3)
diff --git a/whisperx/asr.py b/whisperx/asr.py
index e131ae1d..88d5bf6a 100644
--- a/whisperx/asr.py
+++ b/whisperx/asr.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 from .types import TranscriptionResult, SingleSegment
 
 def load_model(whisper_arch, device, compute_type="float16", asr_options=None, language=None,
-               vad_options=None, model=None):
+               vad_options=None, model=None, task="transcribe"):
     '''Load a Whisper model for inference.
     Args:
         whisper_arch: str - The name of the Whisper model to load.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def load_model(whisper_arch, device, compute_type="float16", asr_options=None, l
 
     model = WhisperModel(whisper_arch, device=device, compute_type=compute_type)
     if language is not None:
-        tokenizer = faster_whisper.tokenizer.Tokenizer(model.hf_tokenizer, model.model.is_multilingual, task="transcribe", language=language)
+        tokenizer = faster_whisper.tokenizer.Tokenizer(model.hf_tokenizer, model.model.is_multilingual, task=task, language=language)
     else:
         print("No language specified, language will be first be detected for each audio file (increases inference time).")
         tokenizer = None
diff --git a/whisperx/transcribe.py b/whisperx/transcribe.py
index d09c5f66..3edc746d 100644
--- a/whisperx/transcribe.py
+++ b/whisperx/transcribe.py
@@ -86,6 +86,11 @@ def cli():
     align_model: str = args.pop("align_model")
     interpolate_method: str = args.pop("interpolate_method")
     no_align: bool = args.pop("no_align")
+    task : str = args.pop("task")
+    if task == "translate":
+        # translation cannot be aligned
+        no_align = True
+
     return_char_alignments: bool = args.pop("return_char_alignments")
 
     hf_token: str = args.pop("hf_token")
@@ -139,7 +144,7 @@ def cli():
     results = []
     tmp_results = []
     # model = load_model(model_name, device=device, download_root=model_dir)
-    model = load_model(model_name, device=device, compute_type=compute_type, language=args['language'], asr_options=asr_options, vad_options={"vad_onset": vad_onset, "vad_offset": vad_offset},)
+    model = load_model(model_name, device=device, compute_type=compute_type, language=args['language'], asr_options=asr_options, vad_options={"vad_onset": vad_onset, "vad_offset": vad_offset}, task=task)
 
     for audio_path in args.pop("audio"):
         audio = load_audio(audio_path)