diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index cee4f9e..f9dad84 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Change Log
 
+## [1.3.0] 2024 - 06 - 02
+
+### Changed
+
+- Migrated to pyproject.toml
+- Extracted noisereduce and visrecognize to optional dependencies
+
 ## [1.2.4] 2024 - 01 - 07
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 57d488f..f1a4e2f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ pip install audalign
 
 in the directory
 
+### Optional dependencies
+
+- visrecognize: additional recognizer based on spectrogram image comparison. `pip install audalign[visrecognize]`
+- noisereduce: wrapper utils around [timsainb/noisereduce](https://github.com/timsainb/noisereduce). `pip install audalign[noisereduce]`
+
 ## Recognizers
 
 There are currently four included recognizers, each with their own config objects.
@@ -64,7 +69,7 @@ import audalign as ad
 fingerprint_rec = ad.FingerprintRecognizer()
 correlation_rec = ad.CorrelationRecognizer()
 cor_spec_rec = ad.CorrelationSpectrogramRecognizer()
-visual_rec = ad.VisualRecognizer()
+visual_rec = ad.VisualRecognizer() # requires installting optional visrecognize dependencies
 
 fingerprint_rec.config.set_accuracy(3)
 # recognizer.config.some_item
@@ -108,7 +113,7 @@ Correlation is more precise than fingerprints and will always give a best alignm
 ## Other Functions
 
 ```python
-# wrapper for timsainb/noisereduce
+# wrapper for timsainb/noisereduce, optional dependency
 ad.remove_noise_file(
     "target/file",
     "5", # noise start in seconds
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a0f5478..4fc5d3f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "audalign"
-version = "1.2.4"
+version = "1.3.0"
 description = "Audio Alignment and Recognition in Python"
 requires-python = ">= 3.8"
 readme = "README.md"