diff --git a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/__about__.py b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/__about__.py
index e54f3bc..21790a2 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__ = "0.1.0a4"
+__version__ = "0.1.0a5"
diff --git a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_transcribe_audio.py b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_transcribe_audio.py
index 4a9a521..d558e46 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_transcribe_audio.py
+++ b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_transcribe_audio.py
@@ -7,20 +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
+    # Suppress some warnings on library import
     import warnings
 
-    warnings.filterwarnings(
-        "ignore", category=DeprecationWarning, module="speech_recognition"
-    )
-    warnings.filterwarnings(
-        "ignore",
-        category=SyntaxWarning,
-        module="pydub",  # TODO: Migrate away from pydub
-    )
-    import speech_recognition as sr
-
-    import pydub
+    with warnings.catch_warnings():
+        warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=DeprecationWarning)
+        warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=SyntaxWarning)
+        import speech_recognition as sr
+        import pydub
 except ImportError:
     # Preserve the error and stack trace for later
     _dependency_exc_info = sys.exc_info()