diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/zipformer.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/zipformer.py
index 8d41f527e..110fb981a 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/zipformer.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/zipformer.py
@@ -1649,7 +1649,6 @@ class SqueezeExcite1d(nn.Module):
 
         bottleneck = self.to_bottleneck_proj(bottleneck)
         bottleneck = self.bottleneck_activation(bottleneck)
-        bottleneck = self.bottleneck_activation(bottleneck)
         scale = self.from_bottleneck_proj(bottleneck)
         scale = self.balancer(scale)
         scale = self.activation(scale)