diff --git a/speech/microphone/requirements.txt b/speech/microphone/requirements.txt
index a74cd184b695..08228d5bdb95 100644
--- a/speech/microphone/requirements.txt
+++ b/speech/microphone/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-google-cloud-speech==2.7.0
+google-cloud-speech==2.8.0
 pyaudio==0.2.11
 six==1.16.0
 
diff --git a/speech/snippets/requirements.txt b/speech/snippets/requirements.txt
index 04681a0b4551..b8c207e813d9 100644
--- a/speech/snippets/requirements.txt
+++ b/speech/snippets/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-google-cloud-speech==2.7.0
+google-cloud-speech==2.8.0
 google-cloud-storage==1.42.0