diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-python-speech/noxfile.py b/packages/google-cloud-python-speech/noxfile.py
index bd20103275bf..fe3a1fe2e8c8 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-python-speech/noxfile.py
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-python-speech/noxfile.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 import os
 import pathlib
+import re
 import shutil
 import warnings