diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/emacspeak/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/emacspeak/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5bc8bbc6a90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/emacspeak/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, makeWrapper, emacs, tcl, tclx, espeak-ng }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "emacspeak";
+  version = "51.0";
+
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak/releases/download/${version}/${pname}-${version}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "09a0ywxlqa8jmc0wmvhaf7bdydnkyhy9nqfsdqcpbsgdzj6qpg90";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper emacs ];
+  buildInputs = [ tcl tclx espeak-ng ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    make config
+  '';
+
+  postBuild = ''
+    make -C servers/native-espeak PREFIX=$out "TCL_INCLUDE=${tcl}/include"
+  '';
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    make -C servers/native-espeak PREFIX=$out install
+    local d=$out/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/
+    install -d -- "$d"
+    cp -a .  "$d"
+    find "$d" \( -type d -or \( -type f -executable \) \) -execdir chmod 755 {} +
+    find "$d" -type f -not -executable -execdir chmod 644 {} +
+    makeWrapper ${emacs}/bin/emacs $out/bin/emacspeak \
+        --set DTK_PROGRAM "${espeak-ng}/bin/espeak" \
+        --add-flags '-l "${placeholder "out"}/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.elc"'
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak/;
+    description = "Emacs extension that provides spoken output";
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    maintainers = [ dema ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/manual-packages.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/manual-packages.nix
index 4ca2d736e65..313a21995e0 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/manual-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/manual-packages.nix
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@
     };
   };
 
+  emacspeak = callPackage ./emacspeak {};
+
   ess-R-object-popup =
     callPackage ./ess-R-object-popup { };