diff --git a/ovos_config/mycroft.conf b/ovos_config/mycroft.conf
index bd25a23..c4e8c5e 100644
--- a/ovos_config/mycroft.conf
+++ b/ovos_config/mycroft.conf
@@ -735,9 +735,9 @@
      "module": "ovos-classifiers-postag-plugin"
   },
   // turn utterances into phoneme sequences, used to generate mouth movements
+  //  disabled by default, only relevant in devices such as the Mark 1
   "g2p": {
-     "module": "ovos-g2p-plugin-mimic",
-     "ovos-g2p-plugin-mimic": {"fallback_module": "ovos-g2p-plugin-heuristic-arpa"}
+     "module": ""
   },
 
   // DEPRECATED: this section is in the process of being fully removed,