diff --git a/egs/aishell/ASR/zipformer/ctc_decode.py b/egs/aishell/ASR/zipformer/ctc_decode.py
index a3dcb6930..84f7084e4 100755
--- a/egs/aishell/ASR/zipformer/ctc_decode.py
+++ b/egs/aishell/ASR/zipformer/ctc_decode.py
@@ -85,13 +85,11 @@ from icefall.decode import (
 from icefall.lexicon import Lexicon
 from icefall.utils import (
     AttributeDict,
-    DecodingResults,
     make_pad_mask,
     setup_logger,
-    store_transcripts_and_timestamps_withoutref,
+    store_transcripts,
     str2bool,
     write_error_stats,
-    parse_hyp_and_timestamp_ch,
 )
 
 LOG_EPS = math.log(1e-10)
@@ -339,29 +337,25 @@ def decode_one_batch(
 
     ctc_output = model.ctc_output(encoder_out)  # (N, T, C)
 
+    hyp_tokens = []
     hyps = []
 
     if params.decoding_method == "ctc-greedy-search" and params.max_sym_per_frame == 1:
-        res = ctc_greedy_search(
+        hyp_tokens = ctc_greedy_search(
             ctc_output=ctc_output,
             encoder_out_lens=encoder_out_lens,
-            return_timestamps = True,
         )
     else:
         raise ValueError(
             f"Unsupported decoding method: {params.decoding_method}"
         )
     
-    hyps, timestamps = parse_hyp_and_timestamp_ch(
-        res=res,
-        subsampling_factor=params.subsampling_factor,
-        word_table = lexicon.token_table,
-        # frame_shift_ms=params.frame_shift_ms,
-    )
+    for i in range(encoder_out.size(0)):
+        hyps.append([lexicon.token_table[idx] for idx in hyp_tokens[i]])
 
     key = f"blank_penalty_{params.blank_penalty}"
     if params.decoding_method == "ctc-greedy-search":
-        return {"ctc-greedy-search_" + key: (hyps, timestamps)}
+        return {"ctc-greedy-search_" + key: hyps}
     elif "fast_beam_search" in params.decoding_method:
         key += f"_beam_{params.beam}_"
         key += f"max_contexts_{params.max_contexts}_"
@@ -373,9 +367,9 @@ def decode_one_batch(
             key += f"_ilme_scale_{params.ilme_scale}"
             key += f"_ngram_lm_scale_{params.ngram_lm_scale}"
 
-        return {key: (hyps, timestamps)}
+        return {key: hyps}
     else:
-        return {f"beam_size_{params.beam_size}_" + key: (hyps, timestamps)}
+        return {f"beam_size_{params.beam_size}_" + key: hyps}
 
 
 def decode_dataset(
@@ -385,8 +379,7 @@ def decode_dataset(
     lexicon: Lexicon,
     graph_compiler: CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler,
     decoding_graph: Optional[k2.Fsa] = None,
-    with_timestamp: bool = False,
-) -> Dict[str, List[Tuple[str, List[str], List[str], List[Tuple[float, float]]]]]:
+) -> Dict[str, List[Tuple[str, List[str], List[str]]]]:
     """Decode dataset.
 
     Args:
@@ -400,13 +393,11 @@ def decode_dataset(
         The decoding graph. Can be either a `k2.trivial_graph` or LG, Used
         only when --decoding_method is fast_beam_search, fast_beam_search_nbest,
         fast_beam_search_nbest_oracle, and fast_beam_search_nbest_LG.
-      with_timestamp:
-        Whether to decode with timestamp.
     Returns:
       Return a dict, whose key may be "greedy_search" if greedy search
       is used, or it may be "beam_7" if beam size of 7 is used.
-      Its value is a list of tuples. Each tuple contains 4 elements:
-      Respectively, they are cut_id, the reference transcript, the predicted result and the decoded_timestamps.
+      Its value is a list of tuples. Each tuple contains 3 elements:
+      Respectively, they are cut_id, the reference transcript, and the predicted result.
     """
     num_cuts = 0
 
@@ -434,26 +425,12 @@ def decode_dataset(
             decoding_graph=decoding_graph,
             batch=batch,
         )
-        if with_timestamp:
-
-            for name, (hyps, timestamps_hyp) in hyps_dict.items():
-                this_batch = []
-                assert len(hyps) == len(texts) and len(timestamps_hyp) == len(hyps)
-                for cut_id, hyp_words, ref_text, time_hyp in zip(
-                    cut_ids, hyps, texts, timestamps_hyp
-                ):
-                    this_batch.append((cut_id, ref_text, hyp_words, time_hyp))
-
-                results[name].extend(this_batch)
-        else:
-
-            for name, hyps in hyps_dict.items():
-                this_batch = []
-                assert len(hyps) == len(texts)
-                for cut_id, hyp_words, ref_text in zip(cut_ids, hyps, texts):
-                    this_batch.append((cut_id, ref_text, hyp_words))
-
-                results[name].extend(this_batch)
+        for name, hyps in hyps_dict.items():
+            this_batch = []
+            assert len(hyps) == len(texts)
+            for cut_id, hyp_words, ref_text in zip(cut_ids, hyps, texts):
+                this_batch.append((cut_id, ref_text, hyp_words))
+            results[name].extend(this_batch)
                 
         num_cuts += len(texts)
 
@@ -467,7 +444,7 @@ def decode_dataset(
 def save_results(
     params: AttributeDict,
     test_set_name: str,
-    results_dict: Dict[str, List[Tuple[str, List[str], List[str], List[Tuple[float, float]]]]],
+    results_dict: Dict[str, List[Tuple[str, List[str], List[str]]]],
 ):
     test_set_wers = dict()
     for key, results in results_dict.items():
@@ -475,7 +452,7 @@ def save_results(
             params.res_dir / f"recogs-{test_set_name}-{key}-{params.suffix}.txt"
         )
         results = sorted(results)
-        store_transcripts_and_timestamps_withoutref(filename=recog_path, texts=results)
+        store_transcripts(filename=recog_path, texts=results, char_level = True)
         logging.info(f"The transcripts are stored in {recog_path}")
 
         # The following prints out WERs, per-word error statistics and aligned
@@ -483,12 +460,11 @@ def save_results(
         errs_filename = (
             params.res_dir / f"errs-{test_set_name}-{key}-{params.suffix}.txt"
         )
-        result_without_timestamp = [(res[0], res[1], res[2]) for res in results]
         with open(errs_filename, "w") as f:
             wer = write_error_stats(
                 f,
                 f"{test_set_name}-{key}",
-                result_without_timestamp,
+                results,
                 enable_log=True,
                 compute_CER=True,
             )
@@ -720,7 +696,6 @@ def main():
             lexicon=lexicon,
             graph_compiler=graph_compiler,
             decoding_graph=decoding_graph,
-            with_timestamp=True,
         )
 
         save_results(