diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 80a50310..e180c966 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ google-auth==2.9.1; python_version >= "3.7" and python_full_version < "3.0.0" or
 google-cloud-texttospeech==2.12.0; python_version >= "3.7"
 googleapis-common-protos==1.56.4; python_version >= "3.7"
 grpcio-status==1.47.0; python_version >= "3.7"
-grpcio==1.47.0; python_version >= "3.7"
+grpcio==1.53.0; python_version >= "3.7"
 ibm-cloud-sdk-core==3.15.3
 ibm-watson==6.0.0
 idna==3.3; python_version >= "3.7" and python_version < "4"