diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-speech/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/google-cloud-speech/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..549b3d532e78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-speech/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Changelog
+
+[PyPI History][1]
+
+[1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-speech/#history
+
+## 0.30.0
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Added link to "Python Development Environment Setup Guide" in
+  project README (#4187, h/t to @michaelawyu)
+
+### Dependencies
+
+- Upgrading to `google-cloud-core >= 0.28.0` and adding dependency
+  on `google-api-core` (#4221, #4280)
+- Deferring to `google-api-core` for `grpcio` and
+  `googleapis-common-protos`dependencies (#4096, #4098)
+
+PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-speech/0.30.0/
diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-speech/setup.py b/packages/google-cloud-speech/setup.py
index 04bd897472ab..e148643d97fb 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-speech/setup.py
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-speech/setup.py
@@ -53,12 +53,13 @@
 
 REQUIREMENTS = [
     'google-cloud-core[grpc] >= 0.28.0, < 0.29dev',
+    'google-api-core >= 0.1.1, < 0.2.0dev',
     'google-gax >= 0.15.14, < 0.16dev',
 ]
 
 setup(
     name='google-cloud-speech',
-    version='0.29.0',
+    version='0.30.0',
     description='Python Client for Google Cloud Speech',
     long_description=README,
     namespace_packages=[