diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 6c4f5f0..39a0bb3 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ Pillow>=10.0.0
 langid>=1.1.6
 langdetect>=1.0.9
 tqdm>=4.66.0
+openai-whisper
 
 # Optional but recommended for richer ingestion / reranking:
-# openai-whisper  # audio/video transcription
 # opencv-python-headless
 # sentence-transformers