diff --git a/TTS/bin/synthesize.py b/TTS/bin/synthesize.py
index 059cef23..382a4fc6 100755
--- a/TTS/bin/synthesize.py
+++ b/TTS/bin/synthesize.py
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ def main():
         str.maketrans('', '', string.punctuation.replace('_', ''))) + '.wav'
     out_path = os.path.join(args.out_path, file_name)
     print(" > Saving output to {}".format(out_path))
-    synthesizer.save_wav(wav, out_path)
+    synthesizer.save_wav(wav, out_path,)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/TTS/utils/audio.py b/TTS/utils/audio.py
index 3d31ce6e..af613ba3 100644
--- a/TTS/utils/audio.py
+++ b/TTS/utils/audio.py
@@ -342,9 +342,10 @@ class AudioProcessor(object):
             x = self.sound_norm(x)
         return x
 
-    def save_wav(self, wav, path):
+    def save_wav(self, wav, path, sample_rate=None):
+        sample_rate = self.sample_rate if sample_rate is None else sample_rate
         wav_norm = wav * (32767 / max(0.01, np.max(np.abs(wav))))
-        scipy.io.wavfile.write(path, self.sample_rate, wav_norm.astype(np.int16))
+        scipy.io.wavfile.write(path, sample_rate, wav_norm.astype(np.int16))
 
     @staticmethod
     def mulaw_encode(wav, qc):