diff --git a/native_client/tflitemodelstate.cc b/native_client/tflitemodelstate.cc
index 8d780fe2a6..b72b1fa1ae 100755
--- a/native_client/tflitemodelstate.cc
+++ b/native_client/tflitemodelstate.cc
@@ -164,7 +164,10 @@ TFLiteModelState::init(const std::string &model_string, bool init_from_bytes)
   }
 
   if (init_from_bytes){
-    fbmodel_ = tflite::FlatBufferModel::BuildFromBuffer(model_string.c_str(), model_string.size_t);
+    char *tmp_buffer = new char[model_string.size()];
+    std::copy(model_string.begin(), model_string.end(), tmp_buffer);
+    // Using c_str does not work
+    fbmodel_ = tflite::FlatBufferModel::VerifyAndBuildFromBuffer(tmp_buffer,model_string.size());
     if (!fbmodel_) {
       std::cerr << "Error at reading model buffer " << std::endl;
       return DS_ERR_FAIL_INIT_MMAP;
@@ -177,7 +180,6 @@ TFLiteModelState::init(const std::string &model_string, bool init_from_bytes)
     }
   }
 
-
   tflite::ops::builtin::BuiltinOpResolver resolver;
   tflite::InterpreterBuilder(*fbmodel_, resolver)(&interpreter_);
   if (!interpreter_) {