diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/whisper/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/whisper/main.rs
index f2560815..d2caebcd 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/whisper/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/whisper/main.rs
@@ -525,7 +525,11 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
     let config: Config = serde_json::from_str(&std::fs::read_to_string(config_filename)?)?;
     let tokenizer = Tokenizer::from_file(tokenizer_filename).map_err(E::msg)?;
 
-    let mel_bytes = include_bytes!("melfilters.bytes");
+    let mel_bytes = match config.num_mel_bins {
+        80 => include_bytes!("melfilters.bytes").as_slice(),
+        128 => include_bytes!("melfilters128.bytes").as_slice(),
+        nmel => anyhow::bail!("unexpected num_mel_bins {nmel}"),
+    };
     let mut mel_filters = vec![0f32; mel_bytes.len() / 4];
     <byteorder::LittleEndian as byteorder::ByteOrder>::read_f32_into(mel_bytes, &mut mel_filters);
 
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/whisper/melfilters128.bytes b/candle-examples/examples/whisper/melfilters128.bytes
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f287c5b1
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