diff --git a/runtime/python/websocket/funasr_wss_server.py b/runtime/python/websocket/funasr_wss_server.py
index 2a449e6423..394052baec 100644
--- a/runtime/python/websocket/funasr_wss_server.py
+++ b/runtime/python/websocket/funasr_wss_server.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def to_python(obj):
 parser.add_argument(
     "--asr_model",
     type=str,
-    default="iic/speech_paraformer-large-contextual_asr_nat-zh-cn-16k-common-vocab8404",
+    default="paraformer-zh",
     help="model from modelscope",
 )
 parser.add_argument("--asr_model_revision", type=str, default="v2.0.4", help="")
@@ -235,8 +235,8 @@ def save_offline_wav_segment_sync(websocket, audio_bytes: bytes, reason: str = "
 
 # ====== 离线 ASR ======
 model_asr = AutoModel(
-    model="paraformer-zh",
-    model_revision="v2.0.4",
+    model=args.asr_model,
+    model_revision=args.asr_model_revision,
     ngpu=args.ngpu,
     ncpu=args.ncpu,
     device=args.device,
diff --git a/tests/test_websocket_server_asr_model.py b/tests/test_websocket_server_asr_model.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b1bab606fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_websocket_server_asr_model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+"""Offline model options of runtime/python/websocket/funasr_wss_server.py.
+
+The README documents ``--asr_model`` for this server. The server parsed ``--asr_model`` and
+``--asr_model_revision`` but built its offline model from a fixed "paraformer-zh" v2.0.4,
+so both options had no effect.
+"""
+
+import importlib.util
+import sys
+import types
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
+SERVER_PATH = ROOT / "runtime/python/websocket/funasr_wss_server.py"
+
+
+def load_server(monkeypatch, *options):
+    """Run the server module with these command-line options; it builds its models on import."""
+    pytest.importorskip("numpy")
+    # Each AutoModel call returns its keyword arguments.
+    funasr = types.ModuleType("funasr")
+    funasr.AutoModel = types.SimpleNamespace
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "funasr", funasr)
+    # Stand-ins for the modules the server uses to serve requests, not to build its models.
+    stand_ins = {
+        name: types.ModuleType(name)
+        for name in ("websockets", "torch", "scipy", "scipy.spatial", "scipy.spatial.distance")
+    }
+    stand_ins["scipy.spatial.distance"].cosine = None
+    for name, module in stand_ins.items():
+        monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, name, module)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(sys, "argv", [str(SERVER_PATH), *options])
+    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("funasr_wss_server_asr_model", SERVER_PATH)
+    server = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+    spec.loader.exec_module(server)
+    server.EXECUTOR.shutdown(wait=True)
+    return server
+
+
+def test_default_offline_model_is_unchanged(monkeypatch):
+    server = load_server(monkeypatch)
+    assert server.model_asr.model == "paraformer-zh"
+    assert server.model_asr.model_revision == "v2.0.4"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "options, model, revision",
+    [
+        (["--asr_model", "paraformer-en"], "paraformer-en", "v2.0.4"),
+        (
+            ["--asr_model", "/models/my-paraformer", "--asr_model_revision", "master"],
+            "/models/my-paraformer",
+            "master",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_asr_model_options_select_the_offline_model(monkeypatch, options, model, revision):
+    server = load_server(monkeypatch, *options)
+    assert server.model_asr.model == model
+    assert server.model_asr.model_revision == revision
+    # The streaming model keeps its own options.
+    assert server.model_asr_streaming.model == server.args.asr_model_online