diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/espeak/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/espeak/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e86177bb53c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/espeak/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, unzip, portaudio }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "espeak-1.44.03";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = mirror://sourceforge/espeak/espeak-1.44.03-source.zip;
+    sha256 = "0lnv89xmsq3bax0qpabd0z2adaag7mdl973bkw3gdszidafmfyx4";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ unzip portaudio ];
+
+  patchPhase = ''
+    sed -e s,/bin/ln,ln,g -i src/Makefile
+    sed -e 's,^CXXFLAGS=-O2,CXXFLAGS=-O2 -D PATH_ESPEAK_DATA=\\\"$(DATADIR)\\\",' -i src/Makefile
+  '' + (if portaudio.api_version == 19 then ''
+    cp src/portaudio19.h src/portaudio.h
+  '' else "");
+
+  configurePhase = ''
+    cd src
+    makeFlags="PREFIX=$out"
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Compact open source software speech synthesizer";
+    homepage = http://espeak.sourceforge.net/;
+    license = "GPLv3+";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/portaudio/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/portaudio/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5941c55ee55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/portaudio/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, alsaLib, pkgconfig }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "portaudio-19-20071207";
+	
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://www.portaudio.com/archives/pa_stable_v19_20071207.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0axz8xzkb6ynzj65p6cv6b0cl5csxsdfvqkd0dljlf3dslkpg886";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ alsaLib pkgconfig ];
+  
+  meta = {
+    description = "Portable cross-platform Audio API";
+    homepage = http://www.portaudio.com/;
+    # Not exactly a bsd license, but alike
+    license = "BSD";
+  };
+
+  passthru = {
+    api_version = 19;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 826f27be424..c1b4adab212 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3617,6 +3617,8 @@ let
 
   popt = callPackage ../development/libraries/popt { };
 
+  portaudio = callPackage ../development/libraries/portaudio { };
+
   proj = callPackage ../development/libraries/proj { };
 
   postgis = callPackage ../development/libraries/postgis { };
@@ -5411,6 +5413,8 @@ let
     inherit (gtkLibs) gtk;
   };
 
+  espeak = callPackage ../applications/audio/espeak { };
+
   evince = callPackage ../applications/misc/evince {
     inherit (gnome) gnomedocutils gnomeicontheme libgnome
       libgnomeui libglade glib gtk scrollkeeper gnome_keyring;