diff --git a/inference.py b/inference.py
index fef464a..54d06d0 100644
--- a/inference.py
+++ b/inference.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 import io
+import nltk
+import numpy as np
 
 from mars5.model import CodecLM, ResidualTransformer
 from vocos import Vocos
@@ -68,7 +70,6 @@ class InferenceConfig():
     # disabling/enabling kv caching won't affect output quality
     use_kv_cache: bool = True
 
-
     # Leading and trailing silences will be trimmed from final output
     # Trim_db is the threshold (in decibels) below reference to consider as silence
     trim_db: float = 27
@@ -76,6 +77,14 @@ class InferenceConfig():
 
     ref_audio_pad: float = 0
 
+    # How many characters are in the sliding window that chunks the text if it
+    # is too long.
+    sliding_window_size: int = 120
+
+    # If True, we use the generated audio from the previous chunk as the reference
+    # If False, the reference provided by the user is always used.
+    sliding_window_reuse_reference: bool = False
+
 class Mars5TTS(nn.Module, ModelHubMixin):
     def __init__(self, ar_ckpt, nar_ckpt, device: str = None) -> None:
         super().__init__()
@@ -110,7 +119,6 @@ def __init__(self, ar_ckpt, nar_ckpt, device: str = None) -> None:
                                             p_cond_drop=0, dropout=0)
         self.codecnar.load_state_dict(nar_ckpt['model'])
         self.codecnar = self.codecnar.to(self.device).eval()
-        self.default_T = 200
 
         self.sr = 24000
         self.latent_sr = 75
@@ -120,6 +128,9 @@ def __init__(self, ar_ckpt, nar_ckpt, device: str = None) -> None:
         nuke_weight_norm(self.codec)
         nuke_weight_norm(self.vocos)
 
+        # Download `punkt` for sentence segmentation
+        nltk.download('punkt')
+
     @classmethod
     def _from_pretrained(
         cls: Type["Mars5TTS"],
@@ -197,10 +208,48 @@ def get_speaker_embedding(self, ref_audio: Tensor) -> Tensor:
         # pass through transformer
         res = self.codeclm.spk_encoder(spk_seq, is_causal=False, src_key_padding_mask=src_key_padding_mask)[:, :1] # select first element -> now (bs, 1, dim).
         return res.squeeze(1)
+    
+    def tts(self, text: str, ref_audio: Tensor, ref_transcript: Optional[str] = None, 
+            cfg: Optional[InferenceConfig] = InferenceConfig()):
+
+        sentences = nltk.tokenize.sent_tokenize(text)
+        text_chunks = []
+
+        for sentence in sentences:
+
+            # Handle sentences that are too long
+            while len(sentence) > cfg.sliding_window_size:
+                split_whitespace = sentence.index(' ', cfg.sliding_window_size)
+                chunk, sentence = sentence[:split_whitespace], sentence[split_whitespace:]
+                text_chunks.append(chunk)
+
+            # Chunk sentences together
+            if text_chunks and len(sentence) + len(text_chunks[-1]) <= cfg.sliding_window_size:
+                text_chunks[-1] += ' ' + sentence
+            else:
+                text_chunks.append(sentence)
+
+        text_chunks.insert(0, ref_transcript)
+        audios = [ref_audio]
+        ar_codes = []
+
+        for ref_chunk_text, current_chunk_text in zip(text_chunks, text_chunks[1:]):
+            ref_chunk_audio = audios[-1]
+            current_chunk_ar_codes, current_chunk_audio = self.tts_chunk(
+                text=current_chunk_text,
+                ref_audio=ref_audio if cfg.sliding_window_reuse_reference else ref_chunk_audio,
+                ref_transcript=ref_transcript if cfg.sliding_window_reuse_reference else ref_chunk_text,
+                cfg=cfg,
+            )
+            audios.append(current_chunk_audio)
+            ar_codes.append(current_chunk_ar_codes.cpu())
+
+        final_audio = np.hstack(audios[1:])
+        return ar_codes, final_audio
 
     @torch.inference_mode
-    def tts(self, text: str, ref_audio: Tensor, ref_transcript: Optional[str] = None, 
-            cfg: Optional[InferenceConfig] = InferenceConfig()) -> Tensor:
+    def tts_chunk(self, text: str, ref_audio: Tensor, ref_transcript: Optional[str] = None, 
+            cfg: Optional[InferenceConfig] = InferenceConfig()):
         """ Perform TTS for `text`, given a reference audio `ref_audio` (of shape [sequence_length,], sampled at 24kHz) 
         which has an associated `ref_transcript`. Perform inference using the inference 
         config given by `cfg`, which controls the temperature, top_p, etc...
@@ -283,8 +332,7 @@ def tts(self, text: str, ref_audio: Tensor, ref_transcript: Optional[str] = None
         x_padding_mask = torch.zeros((1, _x.shape[1]), dtype=torch.bool, device=_x.device)
 
         # ---> perform DDPM NAR inference
-        T = self.default_T
-        diff = MultinomialDiffusion(self.diffusion_n_classes, timesteps=T, device=self.device)
+        diff = MultinomialDiffusion(self.diffusion_n_classes, timesteps=cfg.timesteps, device=self.device)
 
         dsh_cfg = DSH(last_greedy=True, x_0_temp=cfg.x_0_temp, 
                         guidance_w=cfg.nar_guidance_w, 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bfb3273..930de48 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 torch
 torchvision
 torchaudio
-numpy==1.26.4
+nltk
+numpy<2
 regex
 librosa
 vocos