diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 8897ebafc4..04343c848d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -53,3 +53,4 @@ transformers==4.33.*
 encodec==0.1.*
 # deps for XTTS
 unidecode==1.3.*
+num2words