diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 38ad3b062..a446d81d4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "TIKA_STARTUP_SLEEP=30" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           echo "TIKA_STARTUP_MAX_RETRY=10" >> $GITHUB_ENV
           brew install portaudio
+          pip install fasttext==0.9.2
         if: matrix.os == 'macos-latest'
 
       - name: Install dependencies - Windows
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build
         run: |
           pip install -U wheel
-          pip install .[all,dev] fasttext==0.9.2
+          pip install .[all,dev]
           pip cache purge
           python -c "import nltk; nltk.download(['punkt', 'punkt_tab', 'averaged_perceptron_tagger_eng'])"
           python --version