diff --git a/libraries/botbuilder-ai/botbuilder/ai/luis/luis_recognizer.py b/libraries/botbuilder-ai/botbuilder/ai/luis/luis_recognizer.py
index 2bb73948f..ce4e30caa 100644
--- a/libraries/botbuilder-ai/botbuilder/ai/luis/luis_recognizer.py
+++ b/libraries/botbuilder-ai/botbuilder/ai/luis/luis_recognizer.py
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ async def _recognize_internal(
 
         if not utterance or utterance.isspace():
             recognizer_result = RecognizerResult(
-                text=utterance, intents={"": IntentScore(score=1.0)}, entities={}
+                text=utterance
             )
         else: