diff --git a/nemo/collections/asr/models/hybrid_rnnt_ctc_bpe_models.py b/nemo/collections/asr/models/hybrid_rnnt_ctc_bpe_models.py
index feafcbc30..fb72bef41 100644
--- a/nemo/collections/asr/models/hybrid_rnnt_ctc_bpe_models.py
+++ b/nemo/collections/asr/models/hybrid_rnnt_ctc_bpe_models.py
@@ -338,9 +338,14 @@ def change_vocabulary(
         decoding_cls = OmegaConf.create(OmegaConf.to_container(decoding_cls))
         decoding_cfg = OmegaConf.merge(decoding_cls, decoding_cfg)
 
-        self.decoding = RNNTBPEDecoding(
-            decoding_cfg=decoding_cfg, decoder=self.decoder, joint=self.joint, tokenizer=self.tokenizer,
-        )
+        if (self.tokenizer_type == "agg" or self.tokenizer_type == "multilingual") and "multisoftmax" in self.cfg.decoder:
+            self.decoding = RNNTBPEDecoding(
+                decoding_cfg=self.cfg.decoding, decoder=self.decoder, joint=self.joint, tokenizer=self.tokenizer, blank_id=self.ctc_decoder._num_classes // len(self.tokenizer.tokenizers_dict.keys())
+            )
+        else:
+            self.decoding = RNNTBPEDecoding(
+                decoding_cfg=decoding_cfg, decoder=self.decoder, joint=self.joint, tokenizer=self.tokenizer,
+            )
 
         self.wer = RNNTBPEWER(
             decoding=self.decoding,
@@ -405,7 +410,10 @@ def change_vocabulary(
             ctc_decoding_cls = OmegaConf.create(OmegaConf.to_container(ctc_decoding_cls))
             ctc_decoding_cfg = OmegaConf.merge(ctc_decoding_cls, ctc_decoding_cfg)
 
-            self.ctc_decoding = CTCBPEDecoding(decoding_cfg=ctc_decoding_cfg, tokenizer=self.tokenizer)
+            if (self.tokenizer_type == "agg" or self.tokenizer_type == "multilingual") and "multisoftmax" in self.cfg.decoder:
+                self.ctc_decoding = CTCBPEDecoding(self.cfg.aux_ctc.decoding, tokenizer=self.tokenizer, blank_id=self.ctc_decoder._num_classes//len(self.tokenizer.tokenizers_dict.keys()))
+            else:
+                self.ctc_decoding = CTCBPEDecoding(self.cfg.aux_ctc.decoding, tokenizer=self.tokenizer)
 
             self.ctc_wer = WERBPE(
                 decoding=self.ctc_decoding,
@@ -444,9 +452,14 @@ def change_decoding_strategy(self, decoding_cfg: DictConfig = None, decoder_type
             decoding_cls = OmegaConf.create(OmegaConf.to_container(decoding_cls))
             decoding_cfg = OmegaConf.merge(decoding_cls, decoding_cfg)
 
-            self.decoding = RNNTBPEDecoding(
-                decoding_cfg=decoding_cfg, decoder=self.decoder, joint=self.joint, tokenizer=self.tokenizer,
-            )
+            if (self.tokenizer_type == "agg" or self.tokenizer_type == "multilingual") and "multisoftmax" in self.cfg.decoder:
+                self.decoding = RNNTBPEDecoding(
+                    decoding_cfg=self.cfg.decoding, decoder=self.decoder, joint=self.joint, tokenizer=self.tokenizer, blank_id=self.ctc_decoder._num_classes // len(self.tokenizer.tokenizers_dict.keys())
+                )
+            else:
+                self.decoding = RNNTBPEDecoding(
+                    decoding_cfg=decoding_cfg, decoder=self.decoder, joint=self.joint, tokenizer=self.tokenizer,
+                )
 
             self.wer = RNNTBPEWER(
                 decoding=self.decoding,
@@ -483,7 +496,10 @@ def change_decoding_strategy(self, decoding_cfg: DictConfig = None, decoder_type
             decoding_cls = OmegaConf.create(OmegaConf.to_container(decoding_cls))
             decoding_cfg = OmegaConf.merge(decoding_cls, decoding_cfg)
 
-            self.ctc_decoding = CTCBPEDecoding(decoding_cfg=decoding_cfg, tokenizer=self.tokenizer)
+            if (self.tokenizer_type == "agg" or self.tokenizer_type == "multilingual") and "multisoftmax" in self.cfg.decoder:
+                self.ctc_decoding = CTCBPEDecoding(self.cfg.aux_ctc.decoding, tokenizer=self.tokenizer, blank_id=self.ctc_decoder._num_classes//len(self.tokenizer.tokenizers_dict.keys()))
+            else:
+                self.ctc_decoding = CTCBPEDecoding(self.cfg.aux_ctc.decoding, tokenizer=self.tokenizer)
 
             self.ctc_wer = WERBPE(
                 decoding=self.ctc_decoding,