diff --git a/speech_recognition/pytorch/params.py b/speech_recognition/pytorch/params.py
index e7bce5cba..2286361a4 100644
--- a/speech_recognition/pytorch/params.py
+++ b/speech_recognition/pytorch/params.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 # Training parameters
 epochs          = 10 # Number of training epochs
 learning_anneal = 1.1 # Annealing applied to learning rate every epoch
-lr              = 0.00075 # initial learning rate
+lr              = 0.0001 # initial learning rate
 momentum        = 0.9 # momentum
 max_norm        = 400 # Norm cutoff to prevent explosion of gradients
 l2              = 0 # L2 regularization