diff --git a/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/.train.py.swp b/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/.train.py.swp
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diff --git a/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/train.py b/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/train.py
index ae7e1f92e..a6884896a 100755
--- a/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/train.py
+++ b/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/train.py
@@ -303,6 +303,14 @@ def get_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
         default=False,
         help="Whether to use half precision training.",
     )
+    
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--interctc-weight",
+        type=float,
+        default=0.3,
+        help="""Number of steps that affects how rapidly the learning rate
+        decreases. We suggest not to change this.""",
+    )
 
     add_model_arguments(parser)