diff --git a/ovos_tts_plugin_mimic3/__init__.py b/ovos_tts_plugin_mimic3/__init__.py
index 565b179..174e0aa 100644
--- a/ovos_tts_plugin_mimic3/__init__.py
+++ b/ovos_tts_plugin_mimic3/__init__.py
@@ -2,13 +2,12 @@
 import re
 import typing
 import wave
-from os.path import join
-from pathlib import Path
-from threading import Lock
-
 from mimic3_tts import AudioResult, Mimic3Settings, Mimic3TextToSpeechSystem, SSMLSpeaker
+from os.path import join
 from ovos_plugin_manager.tts import TTS
 from ovos_utils.xdg_utils import xdg_data_home
+from pathlib import Path
+from threading import Lock
 from ovos_utils.log import LOG
 
 
@@ -36,23 +35,6 @@ class Mimic3TTSPlugin(TTS):
 
     def __init__(self, lang="en-us", config=None):
         ssml_tags = ["speak", "s", "w", "voice", "prosody", "say-as", "break", "sub", "phoneme"]
-        config = config or {}
-        voice = config.get("voice")
-        speaker = config.get("speaker")
-        if not voice:
-            if lang not in self.default_voices:
-                lang = lang.split("-")[0]
-            if lang in self.default_voices:
-                voice = self.default_voices[lang]
-                config["voice"] = voice
-            else:
-                LOG.warning("Default mimic3 voice not set!")
-
-        if voice and not speaker:
-            if "#" in voice:
-                voice, speaker = voice.split("#")
-                config["voice"] = voice
-                config["speaker"] = speaker
         super().__init__(lang, config, ssml_tags=ssml_tags)
         self.speaker = self.config.get("speaker")
         self.lock = Lock()