diff --git a/src/torchaudio/datasets/commonvoice.py b/src/torchaudio/datasets/commonvoice.py
index db0e035c61..e0e8dfd47a 100644
--- a/src/torchaudio/datasets/commonvoice.py
+++ b/src/torchaudio/datasets/commonvoice.py
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def __init__(self, root: Union[str, Path], tsv: str = "train.tsv") -> None:
         self._path = os.fspath(root)
         self._tsv = os.path.join(self._path, tsv)
 
-        with open(self._tsv, "r") as tsv_:
+        with open(self._tsv, "r", encoding="utf-8") as tsv_:
             walker = csv.reader(tsv_, delimiter="\t")
             self._header = next(walker)
             self._walker = list(walker)