diff --git a/doc/extra-intersphinx.txt b/doc/extra-intersphinx.txt
index 60ec20086e73028726182a8032a6cee85f820524..a3920bdaf1c68aeec98dc0d892daa55fe41e4fea 100644
--- a/doc/extra-intersphinx.txt
+++ b/doc/extra-intersphinx.txt
@@ -2,4 +2,3 @@ scipy
 bob.io.audio
 bob.io.image
 bob.io.video
-bob.io.matlab
diff --git a/doc/index.rst b/doc/index.rst
index e6a000903a8b2872933467d27a0c8f9ad2589fe4..a1027db31a8faeeaaed25fb22c708b7f55f73b35 100644
--- a/doc/index.rst
+++ b/doc/index.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ packages (the list might not be exhaustive):
 * :ref:`bob.io.audio` to load and save audio data of various kinds
 * :ref:`bob.io.image` to load and save images of various kinds
 * :ref:`bob.io.video` to load and save videos of various types
-* :ref:`bob.io.matlab` to load and save matrices in basic matlab ``.mat`` files
 
 
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