diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.train_adapter.py.swp b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.train_adapter.py.swp
index 71f6cebfa..0b1fa2777 100644
Binary files a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.train_adapter.py.swp and b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/.train_adapter.py.swp differ
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/train_adapter.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/train_adapter.py
index a1f54fe9e..4bcc71358 100755
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/train_adapter.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless_d2v_v2/train_adapter.py
@@ -155,8 +155,8 @@ def add_adapter_arguments(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser):
 
     parser.add_argument(
         "--gender",
-        type=float,
-        default=0.0001,
+        type=str,
+        default='male',
         help="adapter learning rate"
     )