diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.decode.py.swp b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.decode.py.swp
index e3a21488f..e9c14c2ca 100644
Binary files a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.decode.py.swp and b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.decode.py.swp differ
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/decode.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/decode.py
index 04f62c167..69472f1fe 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/decode.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/decode.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def get_parser():
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--model-name",
-        type=int,
+        type=str,
         default=30,
         help="""It specifies the checkpoint to use for decoding.
         Note: Epoch counts from 1.