diff --git a/scripts/tts_mlx.py b/scripts/tts_mlx.py
index 16352e9..ed828b5 100644
--- a/scripts/tts_mlx.py
+++ b/scripts/tts_mlx.py
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ def main():
             print("Enter text to synthesize (Ctrl+D to end input):")
         text_to_tts = sys.stdin.read().strip()
     else:
-        with open(args.inp, "r") as fobj:
+        with open(args.inp, "r", encoding="utf-8") as fobj:
             text_to_tts = fobj.read().strip()
 
     all_entries = [tts_model.prepare_script([text_to_tts])]
diff --git a/scripts/tts_pytorch.py b/scripts/tts_pytorch.py
index fe08b99..58422e2 100644
--- a/scripts/tts_pytorch.py
+++ b/scripts/tts_pytorch.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def main():
             print("Enter text to synthesize (Ctrl+D to end input):")
         text = sys.stdin.read().strip()
     else:
-        with open(args.inp, "r") as fobj:
+        with open(args.inp, "r", encoding="utf-8") as fobj:
             text = fobj.read().strip()
 
     # If you want to make a dialog, you can pass more than one turn [text_speaker_1, text_speaker_2, text_2_speaker_1, ...]