diff --git a/src/python/turicreate/toolkits/audio_analysis/audio_analysis.py b/src/python/turicreate/toolkits/audio_analysis/audio_analysis.py
index ea50cd88dc..c894c0f371 100644
--- a/src/python/turicreate/toolkits/audio_analysis/audio_analysis.py
+++ b/src/python/turicreate/toolkits/audio_analysis/audio_analysis.py
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ def load_audio(
     >>> audio_path = "~/Documents/myAudioFiles/"
     >>> audio_sframe = tc.audio_analysis.load_audio(audio_path, recursive=True)
     """
-    _scipy = _minimal_package_import_check("scipy")
+    # import scipy does fake include
+    _wavfile = _minimal_package_import_check("scipy.io.wavfile")
 
     path = _tc.util._make_internal_url(path)
 
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ def load_audio(
     )
     for cur_file_path in all_wav_files:
         try:
-            sample_rate, data = _scipy.io.wavfile.read(cur_file_path)
+            sample_rate, data = _wavfile.read(cur_file_path)
         except Exception as e:
             error_string = "Could not read {}: {}".format(cur_file_path, e)
             if not ignore_failure: