diff --git a/speech/CHANGELOG.md b/speech/CHANGELOG.md
index 161100e56bd0..68d1538cc2df 100644
--- a/speech/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/speech/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-speech/#history
 
+## 1.3.1
+
+12-06-2019 13:05 PST
+
+### Implementation Changes
+- Increase timeout values in client config (via synth). ([#9922](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/pull/9922))
+
 ## 1.3.0
 
 11-21-2019 14:03 PST
diff --git a/speech/setup.py b/speech/setup.py
index ceae4abf88e6..47294157307b 100644
--- a/speech/setup.py
+++ b/speech/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 name = "google-cloud-speech"
 description = "Google Cloud Speech API client library"
-version = "1.3.0"
+version = "1.3.1"
 # Should be one of:
 # 'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha'
 # 'Development Status :: 4 - Beta'