diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless4/decode.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless4/decode.py
index d1af63aaa..70afc3ea3 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless4/decode.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless4/decode.py
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ def get_parser():
     parser.add_argument(
         "--use-averaged-model",
         type=str2bool,
-        default=False,
+        default=True,
         help="Whether to load averaged model. Currently it only supports "
         "using --epoch. If True, it would decode with the averaged model "
         "over the epoch range from `epoch-avg` (excluded) to `epoch`."