diff --git a/examples/librispeech/README.md b/examples/librispeech/README.md
index 3d22128bb..d553faecf 100644
--- a/examples/librispeech/README.md
+++ b/examples/librispeech/README.md
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@
 ## CTC
 | Model | Config | Test Set |  WER | Valid Loss |
 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
-| DeepSpeech2 | conf/deepspeech2.yaml | test-clean | 0.071391 | 15.078561 |
+| DeepSpeech2 | conf/deepspeech2.yaml | test-clean | 0.069357 | 15.078561 |
 | DeepSpeech2 | release 1.8.5 | test-clean | 0.074939 | 15.351633 |
diff --git a/examples/librispeech/conf/deepspeech2.yaml b/examples/librispeech/conf/deepspeech2.yaml
index 20d4e6402..3368374b0 100644
--- a/examples/librispeech/conf/deepspeech2.yaml
+++ b/examples/librispeech/conf/deepspeech2.yaml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ decoding:
   error_rate_type: wer
   decoding_method: ctc_beam_search
   lang_model_path: data/lm/common_crawl_00.prune01111.trie.klm
-  alpha: 2.5
+  alpha: 1.9
   beta: 0.3
   beam_size: 500
   cutoff_prob: 1.0