diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 123187b..653ec59 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 click
 jinja2
 lxml
-uniseg >= 0.9.1
+uniseg >= 0.8.0
 numpy
 colorama
 MarkupSafe
diff --git a/src/dinglehopper/word_error_rate.py b/src/dinglehopper/word_error_rate.py
index ec039b3..f2db504 100644
--- a/src/dinglehopper/word_error_rate.py
+++ b/src/dinglehopper/word_error_rate.py
@@ -21,10 +21,15 @@ def patch_word_break():
     https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/auxiliary/WordBreakProperty.txt
     """
     old_word_break = uniseg.wordbreak.word_break
+    if hasattr(uniseg.wordbreak, 'Word_Break'):
+        aletter = uniseg.wordbreak.Word_Break.ALetter
+    else:
+        # uniseg<0.9
+        aletter = uniseg.wordbreak.WordBreak.ALETTER
 
     def new_word_break(c):
         if 0xE000 <= ord(c) <= 0xF8FF:  # Private Use Area
-            return uniseg.wordbreak.Word_Break.ALetter
+            return aletter
         else:
             return old_word_break(c)