diff --git a/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/whisper/decode.py b/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/whisper/decode.py
index 329df68fe..f758f546c 100755
--- a/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/whisper/decode.py
+++ b/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/whisper/decode.py
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ def get_parser():
         "--model-name",
         type=str,
         default="large-v2",
-        choices=["large-v2", "large-v3", "medium", "small", "tiny"],
+        choices=["large-v2", "large-v3", "medium", "base", "small", "tiny"],
         help="""The model name to use.
         """,
     )