diff --git a/docker/openai-tts-docker/requirements.txt b/docker/openai-tts-docker/requirements.txt
index 110eb68e..1d4a4922 100644
--- a/docker/openai-tts-docker/requirements.txt
+++ b/docker/openai-tts-docker/requirements.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ networkx==3.3
 nltk==3.8.1
 numpy==2.1.1
 openai==1.47.1
-protobuf==5.28.2
+protobuf==7.34.0rc1
 PyAudio==0.2.14
 pydantic==2.9.2
 pydantic_core==2.23.4