diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 41b6729124228cec16be35d9b26da8042824b0b0..ea2a00d6cd8632fd013ba317f5711ee8b5613ba6 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ RUN pip install --upgrade pip && \
     pip install -U sphinx-rtd-theme==0.1.9 recommonmark && \
     pip install pre-commit 'requests==2.9.2' 'ipython==5.3.0' && \
     pip install 'ipykernel==4.6.0' 'jupyter==1.0.0' && \
+    pip install 'recordio>=0.1.0' && \
     pip install opencv-python rarfile 'scipy>=0.19.0' 'nltk>=3.2.2'
 
 # To fix https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/issues/1954, we use
diff --git a/python/requirements.txt b/python/requirements.txt
index 3df822bd76d2a64a0a35f84b4ec309ce7150c221..e19453c25da1ec78773c00a72b8e517b0d798fff 100644
--- a/python/requirements.txt
+++ b/python/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 requests==2.9.2
 numpy>=1.12
 protobuf==3.1
-recordio
+recordio>=0.1.0
 matplotlib
 rarfile
 scipy>=0.19.0