diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index e9f8dbc..b4fc912 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ LABEL maintainer="Your Name <your.email@example.com>"
 LABEL description="Docker image for GPTQ-for-LLaMa and Text Generation WebUI"
 
 RUN apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y git python3 python3-pip make g++ && \
+    apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y libportaudio2 libasound-dev git python3 python3-pip make g++ && \
     rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip pip3 install virtualenv
diff --git a/extensions/silero_tts/tts_preprocessor.py b/extensions/silero_tts/tts_preprocessor.py
index da16323..eb2ca41 100644
--- a/extensions/silero_tts/tts_preprocessor.py
+++ b/extensions/silero_tts/tts_preprocessor.py
@@ -66,8 +66,14 @@ def preprocess(string):
 
 
 def remove_surrounded_chars(string):
-    # this expression matches to 'as few symbols as possible (0 upwards) between any asterisks' OR
-    # 'as few symbols as possible (0 upwards) between an asterisk and the end of the string'
+    # first this expression will check if there is a string nested exclusively between a alt=
+    # and a style= string. This would correspond to only a the alt text of an embedded image
+    # If it matches it will only keep that part as the string, and rend it for further processing
+    # Afterwards this expression matches to 'as few symbols as possible (0 upwards) between any 
+    # asterisks' OR' as few symbols as possible (0 upwards) between an asterisk and the end of the string'
+    if re.search(r'(?<=alt=)(.*)(?=style=)', string, re.DOTALL):
+        m = re.search(r'(?<=alt=)(.*)(?=style=)', string, re.DOTALL)
+        string = m.group(0)
     return re.sub(r'\*[^*]*?(\*|$)', '', string)
 
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 34eee23..64036d9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ sentencepiece
 pyyaml
 tqdm
 git+https://github.com/huggingface/peft
-transformers==4.28.0
+transformers==4.28.1
 bitsandbytes==0.38.1; platform_system != "Windows"
 llama-cpp-python==0.1.34; platform_system != "Windows"
 https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python/releases/download/v0.1.34/llama_cpp_python-0.1.34-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl; platform_system == "Windows"