diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 605a7c6da..ba4a78156 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ service.synthesize_using_websocket('I like to pet dogs',
 * `python_dateutil` >= 2.5.3
 * [responses] for testing
 * Following for web sockets support in speech to text
-   * `websocket-client` 0.52.0
+   * `websocket-client` 0.48.0
 
 ## Contributing
 
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index bdef5b12d..e5476f2a9 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ Sphinx>=1.3.1
 bumpversion>=0.5.3
 
 # Web sockets
-websocket-client==0.52.0
+websocket-client==0.48.0
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index be4adba3d..a8140ad42 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 requests>=2.0,<3.0
 python_dateutil>=2.5.3
-websocket-client==0.52.0
\ No newline at end of file
+websocket-client==0.48.0
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 151ea8017..84e7593b7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ def run_tests(self):
       version=__version__,
       description='Client library to use the IBM Watson Services',
       license='Apache 2.0',
-      install_requires=['requests>=2.0, <3.0', 'python_dateutil>=2.5.3', 'websocket-client==0.52.0'],
+      install_requires=['requests>=2.0, <3.0', 'python_dateutil>=2.5.3', 'websocket-client==0.48.0'],
       tests_require=['responses', 'pytest', 'python_dotenv', 'pytest-rerunfailures', 'tox'],
       cmdclass={'test': PyTest},
       author='Jeffrey Stylos',