diff --git a/flowsettings.py b/flowsettings.py
index 0962eefc2..9a3bd8c46 100644
--- a/flowsettings.py
+++ b/flowsettings.py
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
         "config": {
             "supported_file_types": (
                 ".png, .jpeg, .jpg, .tiff, .tif, .pdf, .xls, .xlsx, .doc, .docx, "
-                ".pptx, .csv, .html, .mhtml, .txt, .md, .zip"
+                ".pptx, .csv, .html, .mhtml, .txt, .md, .zip, .mp3"
             ),
             "private": False,
         },
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@
         "config": {
             "supported_file_types": (
                 ".png, .jpeg, .jpg, .tiff, .tif, .pdf, .xls, .xlsx, .doc, .docx, "
-                ".pptx, .csv, .html, .mhtml, .txt, .md, .zip"
+                ".pptx, .csv, .html, .mhtml, .txt, .md, .zip, .mp3"
             ),
             "private": False,
         },
diff --git a/libs/kotaemon/kotaemon/indices/ingests/files.py b/libs/kotaemon/kotaemon/indices/ingests/files.py
index 18db7ca86..cb15868af 100644
--- a/libs/kotaemon/kotaemon/indices/ingests/files.py
+++ b/libs/kotaemon/kotaemon/indices/ingests/files.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
     HtmlReader,
     MathpixPDFReader,
     MhtmlReader,
+    MP3Reader,
     OCRReader,
     PandasExcelReader,
     PDFThumbnailReader,
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@
     ".tiff": unstructured,
     ".tif": unstructured,
     ".pdf": PDFThumbnailReader(),
+    ".mp3": MP3Reader(),
     ".txt": TxtReader(),
     ".md": TxtReader(),
 }
diff --git a/libs/kotaemon/kotaemon/loaders/__init__.py b/libs/kotaemon/kotaemon/loaders/__init__.py
index f498da806..f7748326f 100644
--- a/libs/kotaemon/kotaemon/loaders/__init__.py
+++ b/libs/kotaemon/kotaemon/loaders/__init__.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 from .excel_loader import ExcelReader, PandasExcelReader
 from .html_loader import HtmlReader, MhtmlReader
 from .mathpix_loader import MathpixPDFReader
+from .mp3_loader import MP3Reader
 from .ocr_loader import ImageReader, OCRReader
 from .pdf_loader import PDFThumbnailReader
 from .txt_loader import TxtReader
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@
     "AdobeReader",
     "TxtReader",
     "PDFThumbnailReader",
+    "MP3Reader",
     "WebReader",
     "DoclingReader",
 ]
diff --git a/libs/kotaemon/kotaemon/loaders/mp3_loader.py b/libs/kotaemon/kotaemon/loaders/mp3_loader.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b427c7700
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libs/kotaemon/kotaemon/loaders/mp3_loader.py
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, List, Optional
+
+from loguru import logger
+
+from kotaemon.base import Document, Param
+
+from .base import BaseReader
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from transformers import pipeline
+
+
+class MP3Reader(BaseReader):
+    model_name_or_path: str = Param(
+        help="The model name or path to use for speech recognition.",
+        default="distil-whisper/distil-large-v3",
+    )
+    cache_dir: str = Param(
+        help="The cache directory to use for the model.",
+        default="models",
+    )
+
+    @Param.auto()
+    def asr_pipeline(self) -> "pipeline":
+        """Setup the ASR pipeline for speech recognition"""
+        try:
+            import accelerate  # noqa: F401
+            import torch
+            from transformers import AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq, AutoProcessor, pipeline
+        except ImportError:
+            raise ImportError(
+                "Please install the required packages to use the MP3Reader: "
+                "'pip install accelerate torch transformers'"
+            )
+
+        try:
+            # Device and model configuration
+            torch_dtype = torch.float16 if torch.cuda.is_available() else torch.float32
+            device = "cuda:0" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
+
+            # Model and processor initialization
+            model = AutoModelForSpeechSeq2Seq.from_pretrained(
+                self.model_name_or_path,
+                torch_dtype=torch_dtype,
+                low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
+                use_safetensors=True,
+                cache_dir=self.cache_dir,
+            ).to(device)
+
+            processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
+                self.model_name_or_path,
+            )
+
+            # ASR pipeline setup
+            asr_pipeline = pipeline(
+                "automatic-speech-recognition",
+                model=model,
+                tokenizer=processor.tokenizer,
+                feature_extractor=processor.feature_extractor,
+                max_new_tokens=128,
+                torch_dtype=torch_dtype,
+                device=device,
+                return_timestamps=True,
+            )
+            logger.info("ASR pipeline setup successful.")
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(f"Error occurred during ASR pipeline setup: {e}")
+            raise
+
+        return asr_pipeline
+
+    def speech_to_text(self, audio_path: str) -> str:
+        try:
+            import librosa
+
+            # Performing speech recognition
+            audio_array, _ = librosa.load(audio_path, sr=16000)  # 16kHz sampling rate
+            result = self.asr_pipeline(audio_array)
+
+            text = result.get("text", "").strip()
+            if text == "":
+                logger.warning("No text found in the audio file.")
+            return text
+        except Exception as e:
+            logger.error(f"Error occurred during speech recognition: {e}")
+            return ""
+
+    def run(
+        self, file_path: str | Path, extra_info: Optional[dict] = None, **kwargs
+    ) -> list[Document]:
+        return self.load_data(str(file_path), extra_info=extra_info, **kwargs)
+
+    def load_data(
+        self, audio_file: str, extra_info: Optional[dict] = None, **kwargs
+    ) -> List[Document]:
+        # Get text from the audio file
+        text = self.speech_to_text(audio_file)
+        metadata = extra_info or {}
+
+        return [Document(text=text, metadata=metadata)]
diff --git a/libs/kotaemon/tests/conftest.py b/libs/kotaemon/tests/conftest.py
index 3f46c7092..8c50431f3 100644
--- a/libs/kotaemon/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/libs/kotaemon/tests/conftest.py
@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ def if_llama_cpp_not_installed():
         return False
 
 
+def if_librosa_not_installed():
+    try:
+        import librosa  # noqa: F401
+    except ImportError:
+        return True
+    else:
+        return False
+
+
 skip_when_haystack_not_installed = pytest.mark.skipif(
     if_haystack_not_installed(), reason="Haystack is not installed"
 )
@@ -97,3 +106,7 @@ def if_llama_cpp_not_installed():
 skip_llama_cpp_not_installed = pytest.mark.skipif(
     if_llama_cpp_not_installed(), reason="llama_cpp is not installed"
 )
+
+skip_when_librosa_not_installed = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    if_librosa_not_installed(), reason="librosa is not installed"
+)
diff --git a/libs/kotaemon/tests/resources/dummy.mp3 b/libs/kotaemon/tests/resources/dummy.mp3
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..61de3714a
Binary files /dev/null and b/libs/kotaemon/tests/resources/dummy.mp3 differ
diff --git a/libs/kotaemon/tests/test_reader.py b/libs/kotaemon/tests/test_reader.py
index d27c774bf..72788f9d5 100644
--- a/libs/kotaemon/tests/test_reader.py
+++ b/libs/kotaemon/tests/test_reader.py
@@ -11,10 +11,14 @@
     DocxReader,
     HtmlReader,
     MhtmlReader,
+    MP3Reader,
     UnstructuredReader,
 )
 
-from .conftest import skip_when_unstructured_pdf_not_installed
+from .conftest import (
+    skip_when_librosa_not_installed,
+    skip_when_unstructured_pdf_not_installed,
+)
 
 
 def test_docx_reader():
@@ -93,3 +97,18 @@ def test_azureai_document_intelligence_reader(mock_client):
 
     assert len(docs) == 1
     mock_client.assert_called_once()
+
+
+@skip_when_librosa_not_installed
+@patch("kotaemon.loaders.MP3Reader.asr_pipeline")
+def test_mp3_reader(mock_pipeline):
+    # Mock the return value
+    mock_pipeline.return_value = "This is the transcript"
+
+    reader = MP3Reader()
+    docs = reader.load_data(str(Path(__file__).parent / "resources" / "dummy.mp3"))
+
+    assert len(docs) == 1
+
+    # Assert that the ASR pipeline was called
+    mock_pipeline.assert_called_once()