diff --git a/faster_whisper/utils.py b/faster_whisper/utils.py
index 8ddbb49..dc806ea 100644
--- a/faster_whisper/utils.py
+++ b/faster_whisper/utils.py
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ def download_model(
 
     if output_dir is not None:
         kwargs["local_dir"] = output_dir
-        kwargs["local_dir_use_symlinks"] = False
 
     if cache_dir is not None:
         kwargs["cache_dir"] = cache_dir
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9a15d6a..46f957c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ctranslate2>=4.0,<5
-huggingface_hub>=0.21
+huggingface_hub>=0.23
 tokenizers>=0.13,<1
 onnxruntime>=1.14,<2 
 av>=11
-tqdm
\ No newline at end of file
+tqdm