diff --git a/requirements/audio.txt b/requirements/audio.txt
index 742cf166..bef32121 100644
--- a/requirements/audio.txt
+++ b/requirements/audio.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 easyasr>=0.0.2
-espnet>=202204
+espnet==202204
 h5py
 inflect
 keras