diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 26c7e32..a6bdc61 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -84,7 +84,10 @@ base_vit = ViT(
     emb_dropout = 0.1
 )
 
-vit = Extractor(base_vit, return_embeddings_only = True)
+vit = Extractor(
+    base_vit,
+    return_embeddings_only = True
+)
 
 clip = CLIP(
     image_encoder = vit,
@@ -105,6 +108,56 @@ loss = clip(text, images, text_mask = mask, return_loss = True)
 loss.backward()
 ```
 
+Finally, one can also have the text transformer be externally defined. It will need to return the embeddings including the CLS token, for now.
+
+```python
+import torch
+from x_clip import CLIP, TextTransformer
+
+from vit_pytorch import ViT
+from vit_pytorch.extractor import Extractor
+
+base_vit = ViT(
+    image_size = 256,
+    patch_size = 32,
+    num_classes = 1000,
+    dim = 512,
+    depth = 6,
+    heads = 16,
+    mlp_dim = 2048,
+    dropout = 0.1,
+    emb_dropout = 0.1
+)
+
+image_encoder = Extractor(
+    base_vit,
+    return_embeddings_only = True
+)
+
+text_encoder = TextTransformer(
+    dim = 512,
+    num_tokens = 10000,
+    max_seq_len = 256 + 1,
+    depth = 6,
+    heads = 8
+)
+
+clip = CLIP(
+    image_encoder = image_encoder,
+    text_encoder = text_encoder,
+    dim_image = 512,
+    dim_text = 512,
+    dim_latent = 512
+)
+
+text = torch.randint(0, 10000, (4, 256))
+images = torch.randn(4, 3, 256, 256)
+mask = torch.ones_like(text).bool()
+
+loss = clip(text, images, text_mask = mask, return_loss = True)
+loss.backward()
+```
+
 ## Citations
 
 ```bibtex
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 524d6be..b2b95d6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 setup(
   name = 'x-clip',
   packages = find_packages(exclude=[]),
-  version = '0.0.10',
+  version = '0.0.11',
   license='MIT',
   description = 'X-CLIP',
   author = 'Phil Wang',
diff --git a/x_clip/__init__.py b/x_clip/__init__.py
index 30f5d44..ff88501 100644
--- a/x_clip/__init__.py
+++ b/x_clip/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-from x_clip.x_clip import CLIP
+from x_clip.x_clip import CLIP, TextTransformer
diff --git a/x_clip/x_clip.py b/x_clip/x_clip.py
index 4fd3592..5fe39e1 100644
--- a/x_clip/x_clip.py
+++ b/x_clip/x_clip.py
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ def __init__(
         self,
         *,
         image_encoder = None,
+        text_encoder = None,
         dim_text = 512,
         dim_image = 512,
         dim_latent = 512,
@@ -240,13 +241,16 @@ def __init__(
 
         # instantiate text transformer
 
-        self.text_transformer = TextTransformer(
-            dim = dim_text,
-            num_tokens = num_text_tokens + (1 if use_mlm else 0),
-            max_seq_len = text_seq_len,
-            depth = text_enc_depth,
-            heads = text_heads
-        )
+        if exists(text_encoder):
+            self.text_transformer = text_encoder
+        else:
+            self.text_transformer = TextTransformer(
+                dim = dim_text,
+                num_tokens = num_text_tokens + (1 if use_mlm else 0),
+                max_seq_len = text_seq_len + 1,
+                depth = text_enc_depth,
+                heads = text_heads
+            )
 
         # instantiate image transformer