diff --git a/speech/package.json b/speech/package.json
index d1c6f0ba65..8d232d0338 100644
--- a/speech/package.json
+++ b/speech/package.json
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     "@google-cloud/speech": "0.6.0",
     "@google-cloud/storage": "0.7.0",
     "node-record-lpcm16": "0.2.0",
-    "yargs": "6.6.0"
+    "yargs": "15.0.1"
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=4.3.2"