diff --git a/speech/package.json b/speech/package.json
index 96b3d77d0c..ea3bbeff14 100644
--- a/speech/package.json
+++ b/speech/package.json
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "c8": "^7.0.0",
     "chai": "^4.2.0",
-    "mocha": "^7.0.0",
+    "mocha": "^8.0.0",
     "uuid": "^8.0.0"
   }
 }