diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 6570bad6..96fc11b4 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -33,9 +33,7 @@ jobs:
           cardboardlinter --refspec ${CIRCLE_BRANCH} -n auto
       - run: nosetests tests --nocapture --processes=0 --process-timeout=20 --process-restartworker
       - run: |
-          sudo ./tests/test_server_package.sh
           sudo ./tests/test_glow-tts_train.sh
-          sudo ./tests/test_server_package.sh
           sudo ./tests/test_tacotron_train.sh
           sudo ./tests/test_vocoder_gan_train.sh
           sudo ./tests/test_vocoder_wavegrad_train.sh
diff --git a/TTS/bin/synthesize.py b/TTS/bin/synthesize.py
index 382a4fc6..009affe5 100755
--- a/TTS/bin/synthesize.py
+++ b/TTS/bin/synthesize.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def main():
     parser.add_argument(
         '--text',
         type=str,
-        default=None,
+        required=True,
         help='Text to generate speech.'
         )