diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/conformer.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/conformer.py
index 8ef452898..85049f915 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/conformer.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/conformer.py
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ class ConformerEncoder(nn.Module):
         if self.training:
             # feature mask.
             # on 0.25 of the frames, drop out the extra features [force a bottleneck.]
-            feature_mask_dropout_prob = 0.25
+            feature_mask_dropout_prob = 0.15
             feature_unmasked_dim = 256 #  hardcode dim for now, 1st 256 are non-masked.
 
             feature_mask = torch.ones_like(src)  # S, N, E