diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 54ed36099..085f49489 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ keywords = [
 dependencies = [
     "click~=8.3.0",
     "culsans~=0.10.0",
-    "datasets",
+    "datasets>=4.1.0",
     "eval_type_backport",
     "faker",
     "ftfy>=6.0.0",
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 8ab00fef4..0845abdfe 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "build", marker = "extra == 'dev'", specifier = ">=1.0.0" },
     { name = "click", specifier = "~=8.3.0" },
     { name = "culsans", specifier = "~=0.10.0" },
-    { name = "datasets" },
+    { name = "datasets", specifier = ">=4.1.0" },
     { name = "datasets", extras = ["audio"], marker = "extra == 'audio'", specifier = ">=4.1.0" },
     { name = "datasets", extras = ["vision"], marker = "extra == 'vision'" },
     { name = "eval-type-backport" },