diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-speech/samples/package.json b/packages/google-cloud-speech/samples/package.json
index 01b7b284f65..02e4a3d197c 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-speech/samples/package.json
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-speech/samples/package.json
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "c8": "^9.0.0",
     "chai": "^4.2.0",
-    "mocha": "^8.0.0",
+    "mocha": "^10.6.0",
     "uuid": "^9.0.0"
   }
 }
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