diff --git a/examples/librispeech/conf/deepspeech2.yaml b/examples/librispeech/conf/deepspeech2.yaml
index b94afe76b..15fd4cbe3 100644
--- a/examples/librispeech/conf/deepspeech2.yaml
+++ b/examples/librispeech/conf/deepspeech2.yaml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ training:
   lr: 5e-4
   lr_decay: 0.83
   weight_decay: 1e-06
-  global_grad_clip: 400.0
+  global_grad_clip: 5.0
 decoding:
   batch_size: 128
   error_rate_type: wer