diff --git a/examples/main/main.cpp b/examples/main/main.cpp
index 6a3db73..bb19318 100644
--- a/examples/main/main.cpp
+++ b/examples/main/main.cpp
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ struct whisper_params {
     float entropy_thold   =  2.40f;
     float logprob_thold   = -1.00f;
     float grammar_penalty = 100.0f;
+    float temperature     = 0.0f;
+    float temperature_inc = 0.2f;
 
     bool speed_up        = false;
     bool debug_mode      = false;
@@ -133,6 +135,8 @@ bool whisper_params_parse(int argc, char ** argv, whisper_params & params) {
         else if (arg == "-wt"   || arg == "--word-thold")      { params.word_thold      = std::stof(argv[++i]); }
         else if (arg == "-et"   || arg == "--entropy-thold")   { params.entropy_thold   = std::stof(argv[++i]); }
         else if (arg == "-lpt"  || arg == "--logprob-thold")   { params.logprob_thold   = std::stof(argv[++i]); }
+        else if (arg == "-tp"   || arg == "--temperature")     { params.temperature     = std::stof(argv[++i]); }
+        else if (arg == "-tpi"  || arg == "--temperature-inc") { params.temperature_inc = std::stof(argv[++i]); }
         // else if (arg == "-su"   || arg == "--speed-up")        { params.speed_up        = true; }
         else if (arg == "-debug"|| arg == "--debug-mode")      { params.debug_mode      = true; }
         else if (arg == "-tr"   || arg == "--translate")       { params.translate       = true; }
@@ -198,6 +202,8 @@ void whisper_print_usage(int /*argc*/, char ** argv, const whisper_params & para
     fprintf(stderr, "  -wt N,     --word-thold N      [%-7.2f] word timestamp probability threshold\n",         params.word_thold);
     fprintf(stderr, "  -et N,     --entropy-thold N   [%-7.2f] entropy threshold for decoder fail\n",           params.entropy_thold);
     fprintf(stderr, "  -lpt N,    --logprob-thold N   [%-7.2f] log probability threshold for decoder fail\n",   params.logprob_thold);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -tp,       --temperature N     [%-7.2f] The sampling temperature, between 0 and 1\n",    params.temperature);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -tpi,      --temperature-inc N [%-7.2f] The increment of temperature, between 0 and 1\n",params.temperature_inc);
     // fprintf(stderr, "  -su,       --speed-up          [%-7s] speed up audio by x2 (reduced accuracy)\n",        params.speed_up ? "true" : "false");
     fprintf(stderr, "  -debug,    --debug-mode        [%-7s] enable debug mode (eg. dump log_mel)\n",           params.debug_mode ? "true" : "false");
     fprintf(stderr, "  -tr,       --translate         [%-7s] translate from source language to english\n",      params.translate ? "true" : "false");
@@ -1107,7 +1113,9 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
             wparams.greedy.best_of        = params.best_of;
             wparams.beam_search.beam_size = params.beam_size;
 
-            wparams.temperature_inc  = params.no_fallback ? 0.0f : wparams.temperature_inc;
+            wparams.temperature_inc  = params.no_fallback ? 0.0f : params.temperature_inc;
+            wparams.temperature      = params.temperature;
+
             wparams.entropy_thold    = params.entropy_thold;
             wparams.logprob_thold    = params.logprob_thold;