diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 83601072e..2b54ab746 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### Fixes
 
 - fix: fix support for `numpy==2.x` ([@ibevers](https://github.com/ibevers/))
+- fix: fix support for `speechbrain==1.x` ([@Adel-Moumen](https://github.com/Adel-Moumen/))
 
 ### Breaking changes
 
diff --git a/pyannote/audio/pipelines/speaker_verification.py b/pyannote/audio/pipelines/speaker_verification.py
index 8c4139b6f..022c1ca6f 100644
--- a/pyannote/audio/pipelines/speaker_verification.py
+++ b/pyannote/audio/pipelines/speaker_verification.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 from pyannote.audio.pipelines.utils import PipelineModel, get_model
 
 try:
-    from speechbrain.pretrained import (
+    from speechbrain.inference import (
         EncoderClassifier as SpeechBrain_EncoderClassifier,
     )
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3a0aa74dc..5083258cb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pytorch_metric_learning >= 2.1.0
 rich >= 12.0.0
 semver >= 3.0.0
 soundfile >= 0.12.1
-speechbrain >= 0.5.14
+speechbrain >= 1.0.0
 tensorboardX >= 2.6
 torch >= 2.0.0
 torch_audiomentations >= 0.11.0
diff --git a/tests/test_speechbrain.py b/tests/test_speechbrain.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ac9b60cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_speechbrain.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import tempfile
+import pytest
+from speechbrain.inference import EncoderClassifier
+
+
+@pytest.fixture()
+def cache():
+    return tempfile.mkdtemp()
+
+def test_import_speechbrain_encoder_classifier(cache):
+    """This is a simple test that check if speechbrain
+    EncoderClassifier can be imported. It does not check
+    if the model is working properly. 
+    """
+
+    model = EncoderClassifier.from_hparams(
+        source="speechbrain/spkrec-ecapa-voxceleb", 
+        savedir=cache,
+    )
+    assert isinstance(model, EncoderClassifier)