diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-texttospeech/samples/package.json b/packages/google-cloud-texttospeech/samples/package.json
index 5565002fd30..4755f5e696a 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-texttospeech/samples/package.json
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-texttospeech/samples/package.json
@@ -20,8 +20,5 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "chai": "^4.2.0",
     "mocha": "^8.0.0"
-  },
-  "optionalDependencies": {
-    "canvas": "^2.0.0"
   }
 }