diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_deploy.yml
index 2775206c..87d892e1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_deploy.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_deploy.yml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ jobs:
       run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade "pip<20"
           pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
-          python -m spacy download en_core_web_md
+          python -m spacy download en_core_web_md	
           python -m spacy link en_core_web_md en
     - name: Cross-validate NLU model
       id: cvnlu
diff --git a/config.yml b/config.yml
index 44399133..09811bbd 100644
--- a/config.yml
+++ b/config.yml
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
 language: en
 pipeline:
-  - name: WhitespaceTokenizer
+  - name: ConveRTTokenizer
   - name: RegexFeaturizer
   - name: LexicalSyntacticFeaturizer
-  - name: CountVectorsFeaturizer
-  - name: CountVectorsFeaturizer
-    analyzer: "char_wb"
-    min_ngram: 1
-    max_ngram: 4
+  - name: ConveRTFeaturizer
   - name: DIETClassifier
     epochs: 100
   - name: EntitySynonymMapper
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2bce0a7d..dd7ee831 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 -r actions/requirements-actions.txt
-rasa[spacy]==1.10.8
+rasa[full]==1.10.8
 rasa-sdk~=1.10.0