diff --git a/speechx/speechx/frontend/normalizer.cc b/speechx/speechx/frontend/normalizer.cc
index 1adddb401b84ec7967c94c22101dba5fb1848539..524125619a74f8e12b7d9932b7529a4ab3bfde0f 100644
--- a/speechx/speechx/frontend/normalizer.cc
+++ b/speechx/speechx/frontend/normalizer.cc
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ void CMVN::Accept(const kaldi::VectorBase<kaldi::BaseFloat>& inputs) {
 }
 
 bool CMVN::Read(kaldi::Vector<BaseFloat>* feats) {
-    if (base_extractor_->Read(feats) == false) {
+    if (base_extractor_->Read(feats) == false || feats->Dim() == 0) {
         return false;
     }
     Compute(feats);