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@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ We provide one model for this recipe: [Pruned stateless RNN-T: Conformer encoder
 
 #### Pruned stateless RNN-T: Conformer encoder + Embedding decoder + k2 pruned RNN-T loss
 
-The best results for Chinese CER(%) and English WER(%) respectivly (zh: Chinese, en: English):
+The best results for Chinese CER(%) and English WER(%) respectively (zh: Chinese, en: English):
 |decoding-method | dev | dev_zh | dev_en | test | test_zh | test_en |
 |--|--|--|--|--|--|--|
 |greedy_search| 7.30 | 6.48 | 19.19 |7.39| 6.66 | 19.13|