diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f0ea93e..1e1086a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ tqdm==4.67.1
     #   speechbrain
     #   stanza
     #   transformers
-transformers==5.0.0rc3
+transformers==5.3.0
     # via
     #   batchalign (setup.py)
     #   peft
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7a732b0..36cc265 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def read(fname):
         "pydub",
         # "imblearn",
         "plotly>=5.3.0",
-        "transformers>=4.38.2,<5",
+        "transformers>=4.38.2,<6",
         "tokenizers>=0.14.1",
         "numba>=0.61.0",
         "numpy>=1.24,<2.3",