New comment by joey-commits on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27193#issuecomment-748411980 Comment: The problem with keeping both around is that you can only build espeakup against one or the other. I have been thinking about wanting to migrate to espeak-ng for a long time but I knew about the espeakup issues. I didn't want to make a pull request until I was sure those issues were solved. One of the accessibility folks who works on the debian project solved the accessibility issues with espeakup.. If there is another thing though that is broken that I don't know about, lets the use case and wait to migrate until we can be sure it is solved. Having both around will be messy.