diff --git a/app-accessibility/espeakup/espeakup-0.90-r2.ebuild b/app-accessibility/espeakup/espeakup-0.90-r2.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..30061f2f14707
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-accessibility/espeakup/espeakup-0.90-r2.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+if [[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] ; then
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup.git"
+	inherit git-r3
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~loong ~x86"
+fi
+
+inherit linux-info meson
+
+DESCRIPTION="espeakup is a small lightweight connector for espeak and speakup"
+HOMEPAGE="https://linux-speakup.org/"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+IUSE="man systemd"
+
+COMMON_DEPEND="app-accessibility/espeak-ng[sound]
+	media-libs/alsa-lib"
+DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}"
+RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}"
+BDEPEND="man? ( app-text/ronn-ng )"
+
+CONFIG_CHECK="~SPEAKUP ~SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SOFT"
+ERROR_SPEAKUP="CONFIG_SPEAKUP is not enabled in this kernel!"
+ERROR_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SOFT="CONFIG_SPEAKUP_SYNTH_SOFT is not enabled in this kernel!"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local emesonargs
+	emesonargs=(
+		$(meson_feature man)
+		$(meson_feature systemd)
+		)
+	meson_src_configure
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	meson_src_install
+	einstalldocs
+	newconfd "${FILESDIR}"/espeakup.confd espeakup
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/espeakup.initd espeakup
+	insinto /etc/modprobe.d
+	newins "${FILESDIR}/modules.espeakup" espeakup.conf
+
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog "To get espeakup to start automatically, it is currently recommended"
+	elog "that you add it to the default run level, by giving the following"
+	elog "command as root."
+	elog
+	elog "rc-update add espeakup default"
+	elog
+	elog "You can also set a default voice now for espeakup."
+	elog "See /etc/conf.d/espeakup for how to do this."
+}
diff --git a/app-accessibility/espeakup/espeakup-9999.ebuild b/app-accessibility/espeakup/espeakup-9999.ebuild
index 503c5bd7ea0c2..745f48752b474 100644
--- a/app-accessibility/espeakup/espeakup-9999.ebuild
+++ b/app-accessibility/espeakup/espeakup-9999.ebuild
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-EAPI=7
+EAPI=8
 
 if [[ ${PV} == "9999" ]] ; then
 	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup.git"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ fi
 inherit linux-info meson
 
 DESCRIPTION="espeakup is a small lightweight connector for espeak and speakup"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/williamh/espeakup"
+HOMEPAGE="https://linux-speakup.org/"
 
 LICENSE="GPL-3"
 SLOT="0"
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ src_install() {
 	einstalldocs
 	newconfd "${FILESDIR}"/espeakup.confd espeakup
 	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/espeakup.initd espeakup
+	insinto /etc/modprobe.d
+	newins "${FILESDIR}/modules.espeakup" espeakup.conf
 }
 
 pkg_postinst() {
diff --git a/app-accessibility/espeakup/files/modules.espeakup b/app-accessibility/espeakup/files/modules.espeakup
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..38d53913d181d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-accessibility/espeakup/files/modules.espeakup
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+speakup_soft