diff --git a/espnet_model_zoo/downloader.py b/espnet_model_zoo/downloader.py
index a235d49..a7b57ed 100644
--- a/espnet_model_zoo/downloader.py
+++ b/espnet_model_zoo/downloader.py
@@ -111,13 +111,18 @@ def _resolve_huggingface(name, url):
     test here, download() then recognised it and returned a snapshot
     directory, and download_and_unpack() tried to unpack that directory as an
     archive. All three now come out as (repo_id, "https://huggingface.co/").
+
+    A row whose url is the marker itself, "https://huggingface.co/", is the
+    first shape, not the third: the URL names no repository, so the id stays
+    the name. Taking the empty tail as the id sent "" to snapshot_download.
     """
     for candidate in (name, url):
         if isinstance(candidate, str) and candidate.startswith(
             "https://huggingface.co/"
         ):
-            repo_id = candidate[len("https://huggingface.co/") :]
-            return repo_id, "https://huggingface.co/"
+            repo_id = candidate[len("https://huggingface.co/") :].strip("/")
+            if repo_id:
+                return repo_id, "https://huggingface.co/"
     return name, url
 
 
diff --git a/test/test_downloader.py b/test/test_downloader.py
index be96c79..678ff71 100644
--- a/test/test_downloader.py
+++ b/test/test_downloader.py
@@ -122,6 +122,30 @@ def fake_huggingface_download(name=None, **kw):
     assert d.download_and_unpack(marker_tag) == {"cache_dir": marker_tag}
 
 
+def test_table_row_with_bare_hub_marker_url_keeps_its_name(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    # Four table.csv rows hold "https://huggingface.co/" - the marker with a
+    # trailing slash - as their url. Read as a full repository URL, its empty
+    # tail became the repo id and snapshot_download rejected "".
+    tag = "reazon-research/reazonspeech-espnet-v1"
+    d = ModelDownloader(tmp_path)
+    assert d.get_url(tag) == "https://huggingface.co/"
+    seen = []
+
+    def fake_huggingface_download(name=None, **kw):
+        seen.append(name)
+        return name
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(d, "huggingface_download", fake_huggingface_download)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        d,
+        "_unpack_cache_dir_for_huggingface",
+        lambda cache_dir: {"cache_dir": cache_dir},
+    )
+    assert d.download_and_unpack(tag) == {"cache_dir": tag}
+    assert d.download(tag) == tag
+    assert seen == [tag, tag]
+
+
 def _fake_snapshot(root: Path):
     # The shape of a packed espnet model as huggingface_hub lays it out: a
     # meta.yaml naming the config and weights, a config whose paths are