diff --git a/whisper/decoding.py b/whisper/decoding.py
index ecd98a4..18cae1f 100644
--- a/whisper/decoding.py
+++ b/whisper/decoding.py
@@ -110,7 +110,13 @@ class DecodingOptions:
 
     # implementation details
     fp16: bool = True  # use fp16 for most of the calculation
+    bf16: bool = False # use bf16 for most of the calculation
 
+    def __post_init__(self):
+        if self.fp16 and self.bf16:
+            raise ValueError("Both fp16 and bf16 cannot be True at the same time")
+        if self.bf16:
+            object.__setattr__(self, "fp16", False)
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
 class DecodingResult:
@@ -650,7 +656,9 @@ class DecodingTask:
             audio_features = self.model.encoder(mel)
 
         if audio_features.dtype != (
-            torch.float16 if self.options.fp16 else torch.float32
+            torch.float16 if self.options.fp16 else 
+            torch.bfloat16 if self.options.bf16 else
+            torch.float32
         ):
             return TypeError(
                 f"audio_features has an incorrect dtype: {audio_features.dtype}"