diff --git a/conversion/gemma.py b/conversion/gemma.py
index 379876629fb..1258428b046 100644
--- a/conversion/gemma.py
+++ b/conversion/gemma.py
@@ -812,10 +812,11 @@ def set_gguf_parameters(self):
         self.gguf_writer.add_vision_attention_layernorm_eps(self.hparams_vision.get("layer_norm_eps", 1e-6))
 
         # audio params
-        assert self.hparams_audio is not None
-        self.gguf_writer.add_clip_audio_projector_type(gguf.VisionProjectorType.GEMMA4A)
-        self.gguf_writer.add_audio_num_mel_bins(self.hparams_audio["feat_in"])
-        self.gguf_writer.add_audio_attention_layernorm_eps(self.hparams_audio.get("layer_norm_eps", 1e-6))
+        if self.has_audio_encoder:
+            assert self.hparams_audio is not None
+            self.gguf_writer.add_clip_audio_projector_type(gguf.VisionProjectorType.GEMMA4A)
+            self.gguf_writer.add_audio_num_mel_bins(self.hparams_audio["feat_in"])
+            self.gguf_writer.add_audio_attention_layernorm_eps(self.hparams_audio.get("layer_norm_eps", 1e-6))
 
     def is_audio_tensor(self, name: str) -> bool:
         return "audio_tower" in name or "embed_audio" in name