There is an updated pull request by joey-commits against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/joey-commits/void-packages espeak-ng-final https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27193 new package: espeak-ng-1.50 Speech Dispatcher and espeakup were also corrected to build against the new espeak-ng I used dummy packages to replace Espeak on installed machines. The idea was gained from polkit-elogind, however, I am open to doing something else if it is prefered. Apparently, the author of espeak could not be contacted and espeak-ng was created a few years ago to continue development. I have been using these packages with my screen readers for a few hours and everything seems like its working so far. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27193.patch is attached