diff --git a/gnu/packages/speech.scm b/gnu/packages/speech.scm
index 6508dec66f..2d6c63e3f9 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/speech.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/speech.scm
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ efficiency through the use of a compact vector representation of n-grams.")
        ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
     (inputs
      `(("dotconf" ,dotconf)
-       ("espeak" ,espeak)
+       ("espeak" ,espeak-ng)
        ("glib" ,glib)
        ("libltdl" ,libltdl)
        ("libsndfile" ,libsndfile)