diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.asr_datamodule.py.swp b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.asr_datamodule.py.swp
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diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/asr_datamodule.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/asr_datamodule.py
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--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/asr_datamodule.py
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@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ class LibriSpeechAsrDataModule:
         else:
             validate = K2SpeechRecognitionDataset(
                 cut_transforms=transforms,
+                input_strategy=eval(self.args.input_strategy)(),
                 return_cuts=self.args.return_cuts,
             )
         valid_sampler = DynamicBucketingSampler(