diff --git a/nemo/collections/asr/models/aed_multitask_models.py b/nemo/collections/asr/models/aed_multitask_models.py
index 5e4f7ac510d1..f890fb1cb849 100644
--- a/nemo/collections/asr/models/aed_multitask_models.py
+++ b/nemo/collections/asr/models/aed_multitask_models.py
@@ -1028,6 +1028,12 @@ def _transcribe_output_processing(self, outputs, trcfg: MultiTaskTranscriptionCo
         enc_mask = outputs.pop('encoder_mask')
         decoder_input_ids = outputs.pop('decoder_input_ids')
         batch = outputs.pop('batch')
+        if isinstance(batch, PromptedAudioToTextMiniBatch):
+            batch_audio = batch.audio
+            batch_audio_lens = batch.audio_lens
+        else:
+            # Handling TensorDataset / external DataLoader
+            batch_audio, batch_audio_lens = batch[0], batch[1]
 
         del log_probs
         num_chunks = enc_states.shape[0]
@@ -1041,13 +1047,17 @@ def _transcribe_output_processing(self, outputs, trcfg: MultiTaskTranscriptionCo
             return_hypotheses=trcfg.return_hypotheses,
         )
         merge_to_be_done = trcfg.enable_chunking and len(hypotheses) > 1
+        if trcfg.enable_chunking:
+            assert isinstance(
+                batch, PromptedAudioToTextMiniBatch
+            ), "Chunking is only supported with Canary dataloaders"
 
         del enc_states, enc_mask, decoder_input_ids
 
         if trcfg.timestamps and self.timestamps_asr_model is not None:
             hypotheses = get_forced_aligned_timestamps_with_external_model(
-                audio=[audio.squeeze()[:audio_len] for audio, audio_len in zip(batch.audio, batch.audio_lens)],
-                batch_size=len(batch.audio),
+                audio=[audio.squeeze()[:audio_len] for audio, audio_len in zip(batch_audio, batch_audio_lens)],
+                batch_size=len(batch_audio),
                 external_ctc_model=self.timestamps_asr_model,
                 main_model_predictions=hypotheses,
                 timestamp_type='char' if merge_to_be_done else ['word', 'segment'],
diff --git a/nemo/collections/asr/parts/mixins/transcription.py b/nemo/collections/asr/parts/mixins/transcription.py
index d5a6add4d2c0..b1b02ac1d245 100644
--- a/nemo/collections/asr/parts/mixins/transcription.py
+++ b/nemo/collections/asr/parts/mixins/transcription.py
@@ -356,6 +356,12 @@ def transcribe_generator(self, audio, override_config: Optional[TranscribeConfig
                     dataloader = self._transcribe_input_processing(audio, transcribe_cfg)
                 else:
                     dataloader = audio
+                assert isinstance(dataloader, DataLoader), "`dataloader` must be of type DataLoader at this point."
+
+                if (isinstance(audio, list) and isinstance(audio[0], (np.ndarray, torch.Tensor))) or isinstance(
+                    audio, (np.ndarray, torch.Tensor)
+                ):
+                    transcribe_cfg.enable_chunking = False  # Can't chunk tensors (don't know cuts)
 
                 if hasattr(transcribe_cfg, 'verbose'):
                     verbose = transcribe_cfg.verbose