diff --git a/convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py
index 6ed2b88c6712..dcddd898faf6 100755
--- a/convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-falcon-hf-to-gguf.py
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
             text = bytearray()
             for c in reverse_vocab[i]:
                 if ord(c) < 256:  # single byte character
-                    text.append(byte_decoder[ord(c)])
+                    text.append(byte_encoder[ord(c)])
                 else:  # multibyte special token character
                     text.extend(c.encode('utf-8'))
     else:
diff --git a/convert-gptneox-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-gptneox-hf-to-gguf.py
index b9c8b4607e59..2b443fafcf4d 100755
--- a/convert-gptneox-hf-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-gptneox-hf-to-gguf.py
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
             text = bytearray()
             for c in reverse_vocab[i]:
                 if ord(c) < 256:  # single byte character
-                    text.append(byte_decoder[ord(c)])
+                    text.append(byte_encoder[ord(c)])
                 else:  # multibyte special token character
                     text.extend(c.encode('utf-8'))
     else: