diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/.decode.py.swp b/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/.decode.py.swp
index 8a5e8d6a5..0ca6ae25b 100644
Binary files a/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/.decode.py.swp and b/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/.decode.py.swp differ
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/decode.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/decode.py
index a924be6b4..b99c48cfe 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/decode.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/conformer_ctc2/decode.py
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ def get_params() -> AttributeDict:
             "nhead": 8,
             "dim_feedforward": 2048,
             "encoder_dim": 512,
-            "num_encoder_layers": 12,
+            "num_encoder_layers": 18,
             # parameters for decoding
             "search_beam": 20,
             "output_beam": 8,