diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 550ea3637a..5f357102a3 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ format-check = "ruff format --check {args}"
 
 [tool.hatch.envs.test]
 extra-dependencies = [
-  "transformers[torch,sentencepiece]==4.41.2", # ExtractiveReader, TransformersSimilarityRanker, LocalWhisperTranscriber, HFGenerators...
+  "transformers[torch,sentencepiece]==4.44.2", # ExtractiveReader, TransformersSimilarityRanker, LocalWhisperTranscriber, HFGenerators...
   "huggingface_hub>=0.23.0",                   # Hugging Face API Generators and Embedders
   "sentence-transformers>=3.0.0",              # SentenceTransformersTextEmbedder and SentenceTransformersDocumentEmbedder
   "langdetect",                                # TextLanguageRouter and DocumentLanguageClassifier