diff --git a/whisperx/__main__.py b/whisperx/__main__.py
index 5102bc0a..e7cc62f0 100644
--- a/whisperx/__main__.py
+++ b/whisperx/__main__.py
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ def cli():
     parser.add_argument("--suppress_numerals", action="store_true", help="whether to suppress numeric symbols and currency symbols during sampling, since wav2vec2 cannot align them correctly")
 
     parser.add_argument("--initial_prompt", type=str, default=None, help="optional text to provide as a prompt for the first window.")
+    parser.add_argument("--hotwords", type=str, default=None, help="hotwords/hint phrases to the model (e.g. \"WhisperX, PyAnnote, GPU\"); improves recognition of rare/technical terms")
     parser.add_argument("--condition_on_previous_text", type=str2bool, default=False, help="if True, provide the previous output of the model as a prompt for the next window; disabling may make the text inconsistent across windows, but the model becomes less prone to getting stuck in a failure loop")
     parser.add_argument("--fp16", type=str2bool, default=True, help="whether to perform inference in fp16; True by default")
 
diff --git a/whisperx/transcribe.py b/whisperx/transcribe.py
index 11110c64..04c2ab36 100644
--- a/whisperx/transcribe.py
+++ b/whisperx/transcribe.py
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ def transcribe_task(args: dict, parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
         "no_speech_threshold": args.pop("no_speech_threshold"),
         "condition_on_previous_text": False,
         "initial_prompt": args.pop("initial_prompt"),
+        "hotwords": args.pop("hotwords"),
         "suppress_tokens": [int(x) for x in args.pop("suppress_tokens").split(",")],
         "suppress_numerals": args.pop("suppress_numerals"),
     }
diff --git a/whisperx/utils.py b/whisperx/utils.py
index dfe3cf2e..ada0deb9 100644
--- a/whisperx/utils.py
+++ b/whisperx/utils.py
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ def write_result(self, result: dict, file: TextIO, options: dict):
 
 def get_writer(
     output_format: str, output_dir: str
-) -> Callable[[dict, TextIO, dict], None]:
+) -> Callable[[dict, str, dict], None]:
     writers = {
         "txt": WriteTXT,
         "vtt": WriteVTT,
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ def get_writer(
     if output_format == "all":
         all_writers = [writer(output_dir) for writer in writers.values()]
 
-        def write_all(result: dict, file: TextIO, options: dict):
+        def write_all(result: dict, file: str, options: dict):
             for writer in all_writers:
                 writer(result, file, options)