diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py
index c24c2d6fb..258457f98 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/train.py
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ def get_parser():
     parser.add_argument(
         "--initial-lr",
         type=float,
-        default=0.05,
+        default=0.06,
         help="The initial learning rate.  This value should not need "
         "to be changed.",
     )