From dbf5c7d2ebf56a70a55858bacb839a5b328f6f6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adel Moumen <88119391+Adel-Moumen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:49:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Retrieve local rank from environment variable

---
 speechbrain/utils/distributed.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/speechbrain/utils/distributed.py b/speechbrain/utils/distributed.py
index 06df381afe..ac88da10b4 100644
--- a/speechbrain/utils/distributed.py
+++ b/speechbrain/utils/distributed.py
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ def ddp_init_group(run_opts):
     None
     """
     rank = get_rank()
-    local_rank = get_local_rank()
+    local_rank = os.environ.get("LOCAL_RANK")
     if local_rank is None or rank is None:
         return