diff --git a/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/.decode_multi.py.swp b/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/.decode_multi.py.swp
index 0d5489c97..4622dd2f1 100644
Binary files a/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/.decode_multi.py.swp and b/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/.decode_multi.py.swp differ
diff --git a/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/decode_multi.py b/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/decode_multi.py
index ba56a39c5..030c602cf 100755
--- a/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/decode_multi.py
+++ b/egs/tedlium2/ASR/conformer_ctc3/decode_multi.py
@@ -93,6 +93,18 @@ def get_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
         "consecutive checkpoints before the checkpoint specified by "
         "'--epoch' and '--iter'",
     )
+    
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--start",
+        type=int,
+        default=1,
+    )
+    
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--end",
+        type=int,
+        default=1,
+    )
 
     parser.add_argument(
         "--method",