diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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--- a/pyproject.toml
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "jiwer"
-version = "2.3.0"
+version = "2.4.0"
 description = "Evaluate your speech-to-text system with similarity measures such as word error rate (WER)"
 authors = ["Nik Vaessen <nikvaes@gmail.com>"]
 readme = "README.md"