diff --git a/.github/workflows/license_tests.yml b/.github/workflows/license_tests.yml
index 922df9be743..26339e9c04e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/license_tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/license_tests.yml
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ jobs:
           requirements: 'requirements-all.txt'
           fail: 'Copyleft,Other,Error'
           fails-only: true
-          exclude: '^(precise-runner|fann2|tqdm|bs4|mutagen|chardet|text-unidecode|sonopy|ovos-stt-plugin).*'
+          exclude: '^(precise-runner|fann2|tqdm|bs4|sonopy|ovos-stt-plugin).*'
           exclude-license: '^(Mozilla).*$'
       - name: Print report
         if: ${{ always() }}
-        run: echo "${{ steps.license_check_report.outputs.report }}"
\ No newline at end of file
+        run: echo "${{ steps.license_check_report.outputs.report }}"
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index f3f84e6ddc2..88e2ae0132e 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ ovos-backend-client~=0.1.0
 ovos-workshop<0.1.0, >=0.0.15
 
 # provides plugins and classic machine learning framework
-ovos-classifiers<0.1.0, >=0.0.0a50
+ovos-classifiers<0.1.0, >=0.0.0a53
 
 # ensure default plugin available for any solver plugins
 ovos-translate-server-plugin