diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index f7e4adb2..1eba0d70 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ jobs:
           name: Build Docker image
           command: make docker-<< parameters.variant >>-git
           # fails due to pip races: DOCKER_PARALLEL=-j3
+          no_output_timeout: 30m
       - run:
           name: Alias Docker images
           command: docker tag ocrd/all:<< parameters.variant >>-git ocrd/all:<< parameters.variant >>