diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.decode_new.py.swp b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.decode_new.py.swp
index 6ce00f115..088947886 100644
Binary files a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.decode_new.py.swp and b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.decode_new.py.swp differ
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/decode_new.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/decode_new.py
index 4ccf619fa..87f3d813e 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/decode_new.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/decode_new.py
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ def main():
     logging.info("About to create model")
     model = get_transducer_model(params)
     
-    if params.model_name:
+    if '.pt' in params.model_name:
         load_checkpoint(f"{params.exp_dir}/{params.model_name}", model)
     else:
         if not params.use_averaged_model: