diff --git a/packages/markitdown/pyproject.toml b/packages/markitdown/pyproject.toml
index d4c20a402..874b71cab 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/markitdown/pyproject.toml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ all = [
   "olefile",
   "pydub",
   "SpeechRecognition",
-  "youtube-transcript-api~=1.0.0",
+  "youtube-transcript-api>=1.0.0",
   "azure-ai-documentintelligence",
   "azure-ai-contentunderstanding>=1.2.0b1",
   "azure-identity",