diff --git a/requirements-ci.txt b/requirements-ci.txt
index 3c2eb5f65..5ec2a1b2d 100644
--- a/requirements-ci.txt
+++ b/requirements-ci.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ graphviz==0.19.1
 
 git+https://github.com/lhotse-speech/lhotse
 kaldilm==1.11
-kaldialign==0.2
+kaldialign==0.71
 sentencepiece==0.1.96
 tensorboard==2.8.0
 typeguard==2.13.3