diff --git a/requirements/audio.txt b/requirements/audio.txt
index e6e52f967dc..0e443bfc4c0 100644
--- a/requirements/audio.txt
+++ b/requirements/audio.txt
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ pystoi >=0.4.0, <0.5.0
 torchaudio >=0.10.0, <2.5.0
 gammatone >=1.0.0, <1.1.0
 librosa >=0.9.0, <0.11.0
-onnxruntime >=1.12.0, <1.19 # installing onnxruntime_gpu-gpu failed on macos
+onnxruntime >=1.12.0, <1.20 # installing onnxruntime_gpu-gpu failed on macos
 requests >=2.19.0, <2.33.0
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 2ce12be4af2..0140f7a5519 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # NOTE: the upper bound for the package version is only set for CI stability, and it is dropped while installing this package
 #  in case you want to preserve/enforce restrictions on the latest compatible version, add "strict" as an in-line comment
 
-numpy >1.20.0
+numpy >1.20.0, <2.0  # strict, for compatibility reasons
 packaging >17.1
 torch >=1.10.0, <2.5.0
 typing-extensions; python_version < '3.9'