diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ae99e1dbec8..cd7242f2e4f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@
     "tiktoken",
     "torch>=2.0.0",
     "soundfile>=0.12.1",
-    "transformers",
+    "transformers<4.42",
     "zstandard",
     "polars[timezone]>=0.20.0",
 ]