diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index db0fa83..1f5cb0b 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -225,9 +225,11 @@ class Song(BaseModel):
 
 result = asst.chat_completion([
     {"role": "user",  "content": "What is Britney Spears's best song?"}
-], schema=Song, max_new_tokens=16)
-
+], schema=Song) 
 # Song(name='Toxic', artist='Britney Spears')
+
+# Embeddings
+asst.embed(["hello, world!", "this will be embedded"])
 ```
 
 ### Tokenization
diff --git a/demos/Text2Text_LLM.ipynb b/demos/Text2Text_LLM.ipynb
index f1ecdd2..c894809 100644
--- a/demos/Text2Text_LLM.ipynb
+++ b/demos/Text2Text_LLM.ipynb
@@ -174,13 +174,26 @@
         "\n",
         "result = asst.chat_completion([\n",
         "    {\"role\": \"user\",  \"content\": \"What is Britney Spears's best song?\"}\n",
-        "], schema=Song, max_new_tokens=16)"
+        "], schema=Song)\n",
+        "print(result) #Song(name='Toxic', artist='Britney Spears')"
       ],
       "metadata": {
         "id": "e5khHlNQZ0FD"
       },
       "execution_count": null,
       "outputs": []
+    },
+    {
+      "cell_type": "code",
+      "source": [
+        "# Embeddings\n",
+        "asst.embed([\"hello, world!\", \"this will be embedded\"])"
+      ],
+      "metadata": {
+        "id": "WJX2klusQR9q"
+      },
+      "execution_count": null,
+      "outputs": []
     }
   ]
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 32a57dd..b033308 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
   name="text2text",
-  version="1.5.2",
+  version="1.5.3",
   author="artitw",
   author_email="artitw@gmail.com",
   description="Text2Text: Crosslingual NLP/G toolkit",
diff --git a/text2text/assistant.py b/text2text/assistant.py
index a777dc8..e2ebe3a 100644
--- a/text2text/assistant.py
+++ b/text2text/assistant.py
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ def __init__(self, **kwargs):
     self.model_name = kwargs.get("model_name", "llama3.1")
     self.load_model()
     self.client = ollama.Client(host=self.model_url)
+    self.llama_index_client = Ollama(model=self.model_name, request_timeout=120.0)
 
   def __del__(self):
     ollama.delete(self.model_name)
@@ -46,12 +47,14 @@ def chat_completion(self, messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hello"}], strea
     if is_port_in_use(self.port):
       if schema:
         msgs = [ChatMessage(**m) for m in messages]
-        llama_index_client = Ollama(model=self.model_name, request_timeout=120.0)
-        return llama_index_client.as_structured_llm(schema).chat(messages=msgs).raw
+        return self.llama_index_client.as_structured_llm(schema).chat(messages=msgs).raw
       return self.client.chat(model=self.model_name, messages=messages, stream=stream)
     self.load_model()
     return self.chat_completion(messages=messages, stream=stream, **kwargs)
 
+  def embed(self, texts):
+    return ollama.embed(model=self.model_name, input=texts)
+
   def transform(self, input_lines, src_lang='en', **kwargs):
     return self.chat_completion([{"role": "user", "content": input_lines}])["message"]["content"]