diff --git a/bindings/python/src/tokenizer.rs b/bindings/python/src/tokenizer.rs
index 3b9b6cac..8a25d64c 100644
--- a/bindings/python/src/tokenizer.rs
+++ b/bindings/python/src/tokenizer.rs
@@ -192,12 +192,16 @@ impl Tokenizer {
         .into()
     }
 
-    fn decode(&self, ids: Vec<u32>) -> PyResult<String> {
-        ToPyResult(self.tokenizer.decode(ids)).into()
+    fn decode(&self, ids: Vec<u32>, skip_special_tokens: bool) -> PyResult<String> {
+        ToPyResult(self.tokenizer.decode(ids, skip_special_tokens)).into()
     }
 
-    fn decode_batch(&self, sentences: Vec<Vec<u32>>) -> PyResult<Vec<String>> {
-        ToPyResult(self.tokenizer.decode_batch(sentences)).into()
+    fn decode_batch(
+        &self,
+        sentences: Vec<Vec<u32>>,
+        skip_special_tokens: bool,
+    ) -> PyResult<Vec<String>> {
+        ToPyResult(self.tokenizer.decode_batch(sentences, skip_special_tokens)).into()
     }
 
     fn token_to_id(&self, token: &str) -> Option<u32> {
diff --git a/tokenizers/src/cli.rs b/tokenizers/src/cli.rs
index c4fed6db..1a91aca0 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/cli.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/cli.rs
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ fn shell(matches: &ArgMatches) -> Result<()> {
         println!("Offsets:\t{:?}", encoded.get_offsets());
         println!(
             "Decoded:\t{}",
-            tokenizer.decode(encoded.get_ids().to_vec()).unwrap()
+            tokenizer.decode(encoded.get_ids().to_vec(), true).unwrap()
         );
         println!("Tokenized in {:?}", elapsed);
     }
diff --git a/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs b/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
index 9603eebd..ee8db5b2 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
@@ -342,15 +342,19 @@ impl Tokenizer {
     }
 
     /// Decode the given ids, back to a String
-    pub fn decode(&self, ids: Vec<u32>) -> Result<String> {
+    pub fn decode(&self, ids: Vec<u32>, skip_special_tokens: bool) -> Result<String> {
         let tokens = ids
             .into_iter()
             .map(|id| {
-                if let Some(token) = self.added_tokens_r.get(&id) {
+                let token = if let Some(token) = self.added_tokens_r.get(&id) {
                     Some(token.content.to_owned())
                 } else {
                     self.model.id_to_token(id)
-                }
+                };
+
+                token.filter(|token| {
+                    !skip_special_tokens || !self.special_tokens.contains_key(token)
+                })
             })
             .filter(|token| token.is_some())
             .map(|id| id.unwrap())
@@ -364,10 +368,14 @@ impl Tokenizer {
     }
 
     /// Decode all sentences in parallel
-    pub fn decode_batch(&self, sentences: Vec<Vec<u32>>) -> Result<Vec<String>> {
+    pub fn decode_batch(
+        &self,
+        sentences: Vec<Vec<u32>>,
+        skip_special_tokens: bool,
+    ) -> Result<Vec<String>> {
         sentences
             .into_par_iter()
-            .map(|sentence| self.decode(sentence))
+            .map(|sentence| self.decode(sentence, skip_special_tokens))
             .collect()
     }