diff --git a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/__about__.py b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/__about__.py
index 5e345b6..463e0c7 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/__about__.py
+++ b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/__about__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024-present Adam Fourney <adamfo@microsoft.com>
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-__version__ = "0.1.0a2"
+__version__ = "0.1.0a3"
diff --git a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_transcribe_audio.py b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_transcribe_audio.py
index 3d02173..71c432b 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_transcribe_audio.py
+++ b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_transcribe_audio.py
@@ -7,7 +7,14 @@ from .._exceptions import MissingDependencyException
 # Save reporting of any exceptions for later
 _dependency_exc_info = None
 try:
+    # Suppress some deprecation warnings from the speech_recognition library
+    import warnings
+
+    warnings.filterwarnings(
+        "ignore", category=DeprecationWarning, module="speech_recognition"
+    )
     import speech_recognition as sr
+
     import pydub
 except ImportError:
     # Preserve the error and stack trace for later