diff --git a/egs/swbd/ASR/local/compute_fbank_swbd.py b/egs/swbd/ASR/local/compute_fbank_swbd.py
index cab516446..a89130bae 100755
--- a/egs/swbd/ASR/local/compute_fbank_swbd.py
+++ b/egs/swbd/ASR/local/compute_fbank_swbd.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def compute_fbank_switchboard(
         dataset_parts,
     )
 
-    extractor = Fbank(FbankConfig(num_mel_bins=num_mel_bins))
+    extractor = Fbank(FbankConfig(num_mel_bins=num_mel_bins, sampling_rate=8000))
 
     with get_executor() as ex:  # Initialize the executor only once.
         for partition, m in manifests.items():
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ def compute_fbank_switchboard(
                 continue
             logging.info(f"Processing {partition}")
             cut_set = CutSet.from_manifests(
-                recordings=m["recordings"].resample(16000),
+                recordings=m["recordings"],
                 supervisions=m["supervisions"],
             )
 
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ def compute_fbank_switchboard(
                         cut_set
                         + cut_set.perturb_speed(0.9)
                         + cut_set.perturb_speed(1.1)
-                    ).resample(16000)
+                    )
             cut_set = cut_set.compute_and_store_features(
                 extractor=extractor,
                 storage_path=f"{output_dir}/{prefix}_feats_{partition}",
diff --git a/egs/swbd/ASR/prepare.sh b/egs/swbd/ASR/prepare.sh
index 0d64e6814..4609f329a 100755
--- a/egs/swbd/ASR/prepare.sh
+++ b/egs/swbd/ASR/prepare.sh
@@ -80,23 +80,23 @@ if [ $stage -le 1 ] && [ $stop_stage -ge 1 ]; then
             data/manifests/eval2000/eval2000_supervisions_unnorm.jsonl.gz \
             data/manifests/eval2000/eval2000_supervisions_all.jsonl.gz
 
-        ./local/rt03_data_prep.sh $rt03_dir
+        # ./local/rt03_data_prep.sh $rt03_dir
 
         # normalize eval2000 and rt03 texts by
         # 1) convert upper to lower
         # 2) remove tags (%AH) (%HESITATION) (%UH)
         # 3) remove <B_ASIDE> <E_ASIDE>
         # 4) remove "(" or ")"
-        for x in  rt03; do
-            cp data/local/${x}/text data/local/${x}/text.org
-            paste -d "" \
-                <(cut -f 1 -d" " data/local/${x}/text.org) \
-                <(awk '{$1=""; print tolower($0)}' data/local/${x}/text.org | perl -pe 's| \(\%.*\)||g' | perl -pe 's| \<.*\>||g' | sed -e "s/(//g" -e "s/)//g") |
-                sed -e 's/\s\+/ /g' >data/local/${x}/text
-            rm data/local/${x}/text.org
-        done
+        # for x in  rt03; do
+        #     cp data/local/${x}/text data/local/${x}/text.org
+        #     paste -d "" \
+        #         <(cut -f 1 -d" " data/local/${x}/text.org) \
+        #         <(awk '{$1=""; print tolower($0)}' data/local/${x}/text.org | perl -pe 's| \(\%.*\)||g' | perl -pe 's| \<.*\>||g' | sed -e "s/(//g" -e "s/)//g") |
+        #         sed -e 's/\s\+/ /g' >data/local/${x}/text
+        #     rm data/local/${x}/text.org
+        # done
 
-        lhotse fix data/manifests_rt03/swbd_recordings_rt03.jsonl.gz data/manifests_rt03/swbd_supervisions_rt03.jsonl.gz data/manifests
+        # lhotse fix data/manifests_rt03/swbd_recordings_rt03.jsonl.gz data/manifests_rt03/swbd_supervisions_rt03.jsonl.gz data/manifests
 
         touch data/manifests/.swbd.done
     fi