diff --git a/speech/package.json b/speech/package.json
index 4502b3f97f..253591bb15 100644
--- a/speech/package.json
+++ b/speech/package.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     "test": "ava -T 20s --verbose system-test/*.test.js"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@google-cloud/speech": "2.0.0",
+    "@google-cloud/speech": "^2.1.0",
     "@google-cloud/storage": "^2.0.0",
     "node-record-lpcm16": "^0.3.0",
     "yargs": "^12.0.0"