diff --git a/examples/whisper-federated-finetuning/pyproject.toml b/examples/whisper-federated-finetuning/pyproject.toml
index 3d7bb023537c..ccc6ce60f02c 100644
--- a/examples/whisper-federated-finetuning/pyproject.toml
+++ b/examples/whisper-federated-finetuning/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ authors = ["The Flower Authors <hello@flower.ai>"]
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = ">=3.9,<3.11"
 flwr = { extras = ["simulation"], version = ">=1.0,<2.0" }
-transformers = "4.32.1"
+transformers = "4.36.0"
 tokenizers = "0.13.3"
 datasets = "2.14.6"
 soundfile = "0.12.1"
diff --git a/examples/whisper-federated-finetuning/requirements.txt b/examples/whisper-federated-finetuning/requirements.txt
index f16b3d6993ce..8dafd7cc5228 100644
--- a/examples/whisper-federated-finetuning/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/whisper-federated-finetuning/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-transformers==4.32.1
+transformers==4.36.0
 tokenizers==0.13.3
 datasets==2.14.6
 soundfile==0.12.1