diff --git a/requirements/common.txt b/requirements/common.txt
index 6e7fd90d02..6a183e09ac 100644
--- a/requirements/common.txt
+++ b/requirements/common.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ pyzmq >= 25.0.0
 msgspec
 gguf >= 0.17.0
 mistral_common[image] >= 1.11.0
+av  # required for audio in video IO
 opencv-python-headless >= 4.13.0    # required for video IO
+soundfile  # required for audio IO
 pyyaml
 six>=1.16.0; python_version > '3.11' # transitive dependency of pandas that needs to be the latest version for python 3.12
 setuptools>=77.0.3,<81.0.0; python_version > '3.11' # Setuptools is used by triton, we need to ensure a modern version is installed for 3.12+ so that it does not try to import distutils, which was removed in 3.12
diff --git a/requirements/test/rocm.txt b/requirements/test/rocm.txt
index 2e03df1bdc..eaa11451a2 100644
--- a/requirements/test/rocm.txt
+++ b/requirements/test/rocm.txt
@@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ attrs==26.1.0
 audioread==3.0.1
     # via librosa
 av==16.1.0
-    # via -r requirements/test/rocm.in
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/test/../common.txt
+    #   -r requirements/test/rocm.in
 azure-core==1.39.0
     # via
     #   azure-identity
@@ -1331,6 +1333,7 @@ sortedcontainers==2.4.0
     # via hypothesis
 soundfile==0.13.1
     # via
+    #   -r requirements/test/../common.txt
     #   -r requirements/test/rocm.in
     #   genai-perf
     #   librosa
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 37782062ae..7665978c6b 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1092,9 +1092,7 @@ setup(
         "instanttensor": ["instanttensor >= 0.1.5"],
         "runai": ["runai-model-streamer[s3,gcs,azure] >= 0.15.7"],
         "audio": [
-            "av",
             "scipy",
-            "soundfile",
             "mistral_common[audio]",
         ],  # Required for audio processing
         "video": [],  # Kept for backwards compatibility