diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c6e9fc2093b2b4bd311f0f580bcde6ae1b4e4f71..a0b28b3bdbf177b35c99ba8c47542fea3c8a2a20 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -227,13 +227,13 @@ Via the easy-to-use, efficient, flexible and scalable implementation, our vision
 
 ## Installation
 
-We strongly recommend our users to install PaddleSpeech in **Linux** with *python>=3.7* and *paddlepaddle>=2.4.1*.
+We strongly recommend our users to install PaddleSpeech in **Linux** with *python>=3.8* and *paddlepaddle>=2.5.0*.
 
 ### **Dependency Introduction**
 
 + gcc >= 4.8.5
-+ paddlepaddle >= 2.4.1
-+ python >= 3.7
++ paddlepaddle >= 2.5.0
++ python >= 3.8
 + OS support:  Linux(recommend), Windows, Mac OSX
 
 PaddleSpeech depends on paddlepaddle. For installation, please refer to the official website of [paddlepaddle](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/en) and choose according to your own machine. Here is an example of the cpu version.
diff --git a/README_cn.md b/README_cn.md
index eabb2ead45f46fb6859770d6cb8c1f3d6349babd..256a2d1fcdef416d8f0da844f7bf739d0cb70f84 100644
--- a/README_cn.md
+++ b/README_cn.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <a href="./LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202-red.svg"></a>
     <a href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleSpeech/releases"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/PaddlePaddle/PaddleSpeech?color=ffa"></a>
     <a href="support os"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/os-linux%2C%20win%2C%20mac-pink.svg"></a>
-    <a href=""><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.7+-aff.svg"></a>
+    <a href=""><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.8+-aff.svg"></a>
     <a href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleSpeech/graphs/contributors"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/PaddlePaddle/PaddleSpeech?color=9ea"></a>
     <a href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleSpeech/commits"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/commit-activity/m/PaddlePaddle/PaddleSpeech?color=3af"></a>
     <a href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleSpeech/issues"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/issues/PaddlePaddle/PaddleSpeech?color=9cc"></a>
@@ -241,8 +241,8 @@
 
 ### 相关依赖
 + gcc >= 4.8.5
-+ paddlepaddle >= 2.4.1
-+ python >= 3.7
++ paddlepaddle >= 2.5.0
++ python >= 3.8
 + linux(推荐), mac, windows
 
 PaddleSpeech 依赖于 paddlepaddle，安装可以参考[ paddlepaddle 官网](https://www.paddlepaddle.org.cn/)，根据自己机器的情况进行选择。这里给出 cpu 版本示例，其它版本大家可以根据自己机器的情况进行安装。
diff --git a/docs/source/install.md b/docs/source/install.md
index a4dae3640a08a201bf07a6177a56b9093f4201e7..3607d7185cd7fb72f179bce930ad0478f1f55cab 100644
--- a/docs/source/install.md
+++ b/docs/source/install.md
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ bash
 ```
 Then you can create a conda virtual environment using the following command:
 ```bash
-conda create -y -p tools/venv python=3.7
+conda create -y -p tools/venv python=3.8
 ```
 Activate the conda virtual environment:
 ```bash
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ $HOME/miniconda3/bin/conda init
 # use the "bash" command to make the conda environment works
 bash
 # create a conda virtual environment
-conda create -y -p tools/venv python=3.7
+conda create -y -p tools/venv python=3.8
 # Activate the conda virtual environment:
 conda activate tools/venv
 # Install the conda packages
diff --git a/docs/source/install_cn.md b/docs/source/install_cn.md
index 7f05cdfe4e6bd7e7aa24b09dfe4e35456ca2850a..01ae21fe7b900f0c5bb72b087bdab4a30d5e08ee 100644
--- a/docs/source/install_cn.md
+++ b/docs/source/install_cn.md
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ bash
 ```
 然后你可以创建一个 conda 的虚拟环境：
 ```bash
-conda create -y -p tools/venv python=3.7
+conda create -y -p tools/venv python=3.8
 ```
 激活 conda 虚拟环境：
 ```bash
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ $HOME/miniconda3/bin/conda init
 # 激活 conda
 bash
 # 创建 Conda 虚拟环境
-conda create -y -p tools/venv python=3.7
+conda create -y -p tools/venv python=3.8
 # 激活 Conda 虚拟环境:
 conda activate tools/venv
 # 安装 Conda 包
diff --git a/docs/topic/package_release/python_package_release.md b/docs/topic/package_release/python_package_release.md
index cb1029e7b66711fbd9657965aaca218db77a83a0..c735e0bd8c4a3abf6e372338834ef518f8522687 100644
--- a/docs/topic/package_release/python_package_release.md
+++ b/docs/topic/package_release/python_package_release.md
@@ -165,8 +165,7 @@ docker run -it xxxxxx
 设置python：
 
 ```bash
-export PATH="/opt/python/cp37-cp37m/bin/:$PATH"
-#export PATH="/opt/python/cp38-cp38/bin/:$PATH"
+export PATH="/opt/python/cp38-cp38/bin/:$PATH"
 #export PATH="/opt/python/cp39-cp39/bin/:$PATH"
 ```
 
diff --git a/runtime/README.md b/runtime/README.md
index 553bb29adb3e94c2b97e60713db8d354814056db..0e9c243e9026024f9f4eefb0f8ab2cb020b80bf5 100644
--- a/runtime/README.md
+++ b/runtime/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ## Environment
 
 We develop under:
-* python - 3.7
+* python - >=3.8
 * docker - `registry.baidubce.com/paddlepaddle/paddle:2.2.2-gpu-cuda10.2-cudnn7`
 * os - Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS
 * gcc/g++/gfortran - 8.2.0
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ please install paddlepaddle >= 2.4rc
 
 
 ```
-cd $YOUR_ENV_PATH/lib/python3.7/site-packages/paddle/fluid
+cd $YOUR_ENV_PATH/lib/python3.8/site-packages/paddle/fluid
 patchelf --set-soname libpaddle.so libpaddle.so
 ```
 
diff --git a/runtime/tools/venv.sh b/runtime/tools/venv.sh
index 3952988c68498507b7aa1d6f2758ad0a2ce63def..2aa7e5095d4a3c0ed887846f44e4f92c42eb03ec 100755
--- a/runtime/tools/venv.sh
+++ b/runtime/tools/venv.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -ex
 
-PYTHON=python3.7
+PYTHON=python3.8
 test -d venv || virtualenv -p ${PYTHON} venv
diff --git a/tools/Makefile b/tools/Makefile
index a5a4485da79795ed8f2abec1a24abb2f6d9a98b0..c6c667cd0dfcff91877d4de09193a868d1a78896 100644
--- a/tools/Makefile
+++ b/tools/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SHELL:= /bin/bash
-PYTHON:= python3.7
+PYTHON:= python3.8
 
 CXX ?= g++
 CC ?= gcc        # used for sph2pipe