diff --git a/recipes/ljspeech/tacotron2-DCA/tacotron2-DCA.json b/recipes/ljspeech/tacotron2-DCA/tacotron2-DCA.json
index c5b6fa52..73bb8ae3 100644
--- a/recipes/ljspeech/tacotron2-DCA/tacotron2-DCA.json
+++ b/recipes/ljspeech/tacotron2-DCA/tacotron2-DCA.json
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     "stopnet_pos_weight": 15.0,
     "run_eval": true,
     "test_delay_epochs": 10,
-    "max_decoder_steps": 50,
+    "max_decoder_steps": 1000,
     "noam_schedule": true,
     "grad_clip": 0.05,
     "epochs": 1000,
diff --git a/recipes/ljspeech/tacotron2-DDC/tacotron2-DDC.json b/recipes/ljspeech/tacotron2-DDC/tacotron2-DDC.json
index d787c138..339e65b8 100644
--- a/recipes/ljspeech/tacotron2-DDC/tacotron2-DDC.json
+++ b/recipes/ljspeech/tacotron2-DDC/tacotron2-DDC.json
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
     "run_eval": true,
     "test_delay_epochs": 10,
     "test_sentences_file": null,
-    "max_decoder_steps": 50,
+    "max_decoder_steps": 1000,
     "noam_schedule": true,
     "grad_clip": 0.05,
     "epochs": 1000,