diff --git a/llms/mlx_lm/utils.py b/llms/mlx_lm/utils.py
index cffa2a89..0e7f7a39 100644
--- a/llms/mlx_lm/utils.py
+++ b/llms/mlx_lm/utils.py
@@ -660,6 +660,16 @@ def convert(
     revision: Optional[str] = None,
     dequantize: bool = False,
 ):
+    # Check the save path is empty
+    if isinstance(mlx_path, str):
+        mlx_path = Path(mlx_path)
+
+    if mlx_path.exists():
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Cannot save to the path {mlx_path} as it already exists."
+            " Please delete the file/directory or specify a new path to save to."
+        )
+
     print("[INFO] Loading")
     model_path = get_model_path(hf_path, revision=revision)
     model, config, tokenizer = fetch_from_hub(model_path, lazy=True)
@@ -681,9 +691,6 @@ def convert(
         model = dequantize_model(model)
         weights = dict(tree_flatten(model.parameters()))
 
-    if isinstance(mlx_path, str):
-        mlx_path = Path(mlx_path)
-
     del model
     save_weights(mlx_path, weights, donate_weights=True)
 
diff --git a/llms/tests/test_utils.py b/llms/tests/test_utils.py
index 576c2820..18cfa8c7 100644
--- a/llms/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/llms/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ class TestUtils(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertTrue(isinstance(model.layers[-1].mlp.up_proj, nn.QuantizedLinear))
 
         # Check model weights have right type
+        mlx_path = os.path.join(self.test_dir, "mlx_model_bf16")
         utils.convert(HF_MODEL_PATH, mlx_path=mlx_path, dtype="bfloat16")
         model, _ = utils.load(mlx_path)
 
diff --git a/whisper/convert.py b/whisper/convert.py
index 85ce5fba..da7195e0 100644
--- a/whisper/convert.py
+++ b/whisper/convert.py
@@ -163,7 +163,12 @@ def load_torch_weights_and_config(
 
         name_or_path = snapshot_download(
             repo_id=name_or_path,
-            allow_patterns=["*.json", "pytorch_model.bin", "*.txt"],
+            allow_patterns=[
+                "*.json",
+                "pytorch_model.bin",
+                "model.safetensors",
+                "*.txt",
+            ],
         )
     else:
         raise RuntimeError(
@@ -176,10 +181,11 @@ def load_torch_weights_and_config(
         weights, config = checkpoint["model_state_dict"], checkpoint["dims"]
     else:
         name_or_path = Path(name_or_path)
-        weights = torch.load(
-            name_or_path / "pytorch_model.bin",
-            map_location="cpu",
-        )
+        pt_path = name_or_path / "pytorch_model.bin"
+        if pt_path.is_file():
+            weights = torch.load(pt_path, map_location="cpu")
+        else:
+            weights = mx.load(str(name_or_path / "model.safetensors"))
         with open(name_or_path / "config.json", "r") as fp:
             config = json.load(fp)
         weights, config = hf_to_pt(weights, config)
@@ -230,7 +236,9 @@ def convert(name_or_path: str, dtype: mx.Dtype = mx.float16):
         key = key.replace("mlp.2", "mlp2")
         if "conv" in key and value.ndim == 3:
             value = value.swapaxes(1, 2)
-        return key, mx.array(value.detach()).astype(dtype)
+        if isinstance(value, torch.Tensor):
+            value = mx.array(value.detach())
+        return key, value.astype(dtype)
 
     weights, config, alignment_heads = load_torch_weights_and_config(name_or_path)
     weights.pop("encoder.positional_embedding", None)
@@ -262,12 +270,16 @@ This model was converted to MLX format from [`{torch_name_or_path}`]().
 
 ## Use with mlx
 ```bash
-git clone https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples.git
-cd mlx-examples/whisper/
-pip install -r requirements.txt
+pip install mlx-whisper
+```
 
->> import whisper
->> whisper.transcribe("FILE_NAME")
+```python
+import mlx_whisper
+
+result = mlx_whisper.transcribe(
+    "FILE_NAME",
+    path_or_hf_repo={repo_id},
+)
 ```
 """
     card = ModelCard(text)