diff --git a/resemblyzer/voice_encoder.py b/resemblyzer/voice_encoder.py
index d6306f0..eddc230 100644
--- a/resemblyzer/voice_encoder.py
+++ b/resemblyzer/voice_encoder.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def __init__(self, device: Union[str, torch.device]=None, verbose=True, weights_
             raise Exception("Couldn't find the voice encoder pretrained model at %s." %
                             weights_fpath)
         start = timer()
-        checkpoint = torch.load(weights_fpath, map_location="cpu")
+        checkpoint = torch.load(weights_fpath, map_location="cpu", weights_only=True)
         self.load_state_dict(checkpoint["model_state"], strict=False)
         self.to(device)