diff --git a/jasper/data/validation/process.py b/jasper/data/validation/process.py
index b9c7d2c..c401d87 100644
--- a/jasper/data/validation/process.py
+++ b/jasper/data/validation/process.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ from ..utils import (
 app = typer.Typer()
 
 
-def preprocess_datapoint(idx, rel_root, sample, use_domain_asr, annotation_only):
+def preprocess_datapoint(idx, rel_root, sample, use_domain_asr, annotation_only, enable_plots):
     import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
     import librosa
     import librosa.display
@@ -48,19 +48,20 @@ def preprocess_datapoint(idx, rel_root, sample, use_domain_asr, annotation_only)
                 res["domain_wer"] = word_error_rate(
                     [res["spoken"]], [res["pretrained_asr"]]
                 )
-        wav_plot_path = (
-            rel_root / Path("wav_plots") / Path(audio_path.name).with_suffix(".png")
-        )
-        if not wav_plot_path.exists():
-            fig = plt.Figure()
-            ax = fig.add_subplot()
-            (y, sr) = librosa.load(audio_path)
-            librosa.display.waveplot(y=y, sr=sr, ax=ax)
-            with wav_plot_path.open("wb") as wav_plot_f:
-                fig.set_tight_layout(True)
-                fig.savefig(wav_plot_f, format="png", dpi=50)
-                # fig.close()
-        res["plot_path"] = str(wav_plot_path)
+        if enable_plots:
+            wav_plot_path = (
+                rel_root / Path("wav_plots") / Path(audio_path.name).with_suffix(".png")
+            )
+            if not wav_plot_path.exists():
+                fig = plt.Figure()
+                ax = fig.add_subplot()
+                (y, sr) = librosa.load(audio_path)
+                librosa.display.waveplot(y=y, sr=sr, ax=ax)
+                with wav_plot_path.open("wb") as wav_plot_f:
+                    fig.set_tight_layout(True)
+                    fig.savefig(wav_plot_f, format="png", dpi=50)
+                    # fig.close()
+            res["plot_path"] = str(wav_plot_path)
         return res
     except BaseException as e:
         print(f'failed on {idx}: {sample["audio_filepath"]} with {e}')
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ def dump_validation_ui_data(
     ),
     use_domain_asr: bool = True,
     annotation_only: bool = True,
+    enable_plots: bool = True,
 ):
     from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
     from functools import partial
@@ -93,6 +95,7 @@ def dump_validation_ui_data(
                 json.loads(v),
                 use_domain_asr,
                 annotation_only,
+                enable_plots,
             )
             for i, v in enumerate(pnr_jsonl)
         ]
@@ -122,6 +125,7 @@ def dump_validation_ui_data(
         "use_domain_asr": use_domain_asr,
         "data": result,
         "annotation_only": annotation_only,
+        "enable_plots": enable_plots,
     }
     ExtendedPath(dump_path).write_json(ui_config)
 
diff --git a/jasper/data/validation/ui.py b/jasper/data/validation/ui.py
index 7ba67d3..f013677 100644
--- a/jasper/data/validation/ui.py
+++ b/jasper/data/validation/ui.py
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ def main(manifest: Path):
     asr_data = ui_config["data"]
     use_domain_asr = ui_config.get("use_domain_asr", True)
     annotation_only = ui_config.get("annotation_only", False)
+    enable_plots = ui_config.get("enable_plots", True)
     sample_no = st.get_current_cursor()
     if len(asr_data) - 1 < sample_no or sample_no < 0:
         print("Invalid samplno resetting to 0")
@@ -92,7 +93,8 @@ def main(manifest: Path):
             st.sidebar.title(f"Speller WER: {sample['domain_wer']:.2f}%")
         else:
             st.sidebar.title(f"Pretrained WER: {sample['pretrained_wer']:.2f}%")
-    st.sidebar.image(Path(sample["plot_path"]).read_bytes())
+    if enable_plots:
+        st.sidebar.image(Path(sample["plot_path"]).read_bytes())
     st.audio(Path(sample["audio_path"]).open("rb"))
     # set default to text
     corrected = sample["text"]