diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7d1cff375..76e1fa39d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Changed
 
+- Changed the `livekit` optional dependency for `tenacity` to
+  `tenacity>=8.2.3,<10.0.0` in order to support the `google-genai` package.
+
 - For `LmntTTSService`, changed the default `model` to `blizzard`, LMNT's
   recommended model.
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 81e1e656f..c1f0f892b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ gstreamer = [ "pygobject~=3.50.0" ]
 krisp = [ "pipecat-ai-krisp~=0.4.0" ]
 koala = [ "pvkoala~=2.0.3" ]
 langchain = [ "langchain~=0.3.20", "langchain-community~=0.3.20", "langchain-openai~=0.3.9" ]
-livekit = [ "livekit~=0.22.0", "livekit-api~=0.8.2", "tenacity~=9.0.0" ]
+livekit = [ "livekit~=0.22.0", "livekit-api~=0.8.2", "tenacity>=8.2.3,<10.0.0" ]
 lmnt = [ "websockets~=13.1" ]
 local = [ "pyaudio~=0.2.14" ]
 mcp = [ "mcp[cli]~=1.9.4" ]