diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b63cd36..d540d25 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -49,6 +49,28 @@ pip install -e ".[plotting]"
 pip install -e ".[training]"
 ```
 
+## Running on Apple Silicon (macOS)
+
+TRIBE v2 works on Apple Silicon Macs (M1–M4). The model runs on CPU for inference (MPS support is limited for some operations). A few notes:
+
+- **whisperx** (used for audio transcription) does not support MPS so it automatically falls back to CPU with `int8` compute.
+- **Multiprocessing**: macOS defaults to the `spawn` start method, which conflicts with PyTorch DataLoaders. Use `fork` and wrap your code in `if __name__ == "__main__"`:
+
+```python
+import multiprocessing
+from tribev2 import TribeModel
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    multiprocessing.set_start_method("fork")
+
+    model = TribeModel.from_pretrained("facebook/tribev2", cache_folder="./cache", device="cpu")
+    df = model.get_events_dataframe(video_path="path/to/video.mp4")
+    preds, segments = model.predict(events=df)
+    print(preds.shape)  # (n_timesteps, n_vertices)
+```
+
+- **First run** is slow (feature extraction for LLaMA 3.2, V-JEPA2, Wav2Vec-BERT). Extracted features are cached in `cache_folder`, so subsequent runs on the same video are near-instant.
+
 ## Training a model from scratch
 
 ### 1. Set environment variables
diff --git a/tribev2/demo_utils.py b/tribev2/demo_utils.py
index fa735a7..5e4a10a 100644
--- a/tribev2/demo_utils.py
+++ b/tribev2/demo_utils.py
@@ -220,6 +220,12 @@ def from_pretrained(
         config["cache_folder"] = (
             str(cache_folder) if cache_folder is not None else "./cache"
         )
+        if device in ("cpu", "mps"):  # mps not supported by neuralset extractors
+            # Override all extractor devices to cpu when cuda is unavailable
+            for modality in ["text", "audio"]:
+                config[f"data.{modality}_feature.device"] = "cpu"
+            config["data.image_feature.image.device"] = "cpu"
+            config["data.video_feature.image.device"] = "cpu"
         if config_update is not None:
             config.update(config_update)
         xp = cls(**config)
diff --git a/tribev2/eventstransforms.py b/tribev2/eventstransforms.py
index 1fd0c69..d2f7fde 100644
--- a/tribev2/eventstransforms.py
+++ b/tribev2/eventstransforms.py
@@ -104,8 +104,13 @@ def _get_transcript_from_audio(wav_filename: Path, language: str) -> pd.DataFram
         if language not in language_codes:
             raise ValueError(f"Language {language} not supported")
 
-        device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
-        compute_type = "float16"
+        # whisperx (ctranslate2) only supports cuda or cpu
+        if torch.cuda.is_available():
+            device = "cuda"
+            compute_type = "float16"
+        else:
+            device = "cpu"
+            compute_type = "int8"
 
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as output_dir:
             logger.info("Running whisperx via uvx...")