diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/espeak-ng/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/espeak-ng/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cb2e15bc5b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/espeak-ng/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{ stdenv, lib, fetchFromGitHub, autoconf, automake, which, libtool, pkgconfig
+, ronn
+, pcaudiolibSupport ? true, pcaudiolib
+, sonicSupport ? true, sonic }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "espeak-ng-${version}";
+  version = "2016-08-28";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "espeak-ng";
+    repo = "espeak-ng";
+    rev = "b784e77c5708b61feed780d8f1113c4c8eb92200";
+    sha256 = "1whix4mv0qvsvifgpwwbdzhv621as3rxpn9ijqc2683h6k8pvcfk";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoconf automake which libtool pkgconfig ronn ];
+
+  buildInputs = lib.optional pcaudiolibSupport pcaudiolib
+             ++ lib.optional sonicSupport sonic;
+
+  preConfigure = "./autogen.sh";
+
+  postInstall = ''
+    patchelf --set-rpath "$(patchelf --print-rpath $out/bin/espeak-ng)" $out/bin/speak-ng
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Open source speech synthesizer that supports over 70 languages, based on eSpeak";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng";
+    license = licenses.gpl3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ aske ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b40a0432b26..b5863ae40d6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12963,6 +12963,8 @@ in
 
   espeak = callPackage ../applications/audio/espeak { };
 
+  espeak-ng = callPackage ../applications/audio/espeak-ng { };
+
   espeakedit = callPackage ../applications/audio/espeak/edit.nix { };
 
   esniper = callPackage ../applications/networking/esniper { };