diff --git a/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/Manifest b/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/Manifest
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--- a/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/Manifest
+++ b/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST speech-dispatcher-0.11.5.tar.gz 7230756 BLAKE2B cacc0030489c17dcab4648c55e5b203f40d7a473be9a1ec0402e39fc8f853d30596caff4204052782ca562cc318363aa52118e6d375b5e9bf505ef7159129544 SHA512 d6d880bce0ae5bc2a5d519ef7740c689ae8b4b0bb658379762810e4beae3e465a429fbe19f7c490e89db0ea6a36aedd4b2287ac9251b90059b5c2cb3c0dd8a28
 DIST speech-dispatcher-0.12.0.tar.gz 7481967 BLAKE2B 091a4fcf3a5b1bd7af256cf311b702ea6d3dcf18900f24f04c7edd66d26eb535b442e16112c1eed2fc0867d88cb56b898c381989a0dccbf22816fe8242930d9f SHA512 684472c9410ca42f28873054613934ad93525aa5526b788dc4c2bba861aa6cb675826b9fc5083e013d25e0f23fe113691e11aa7aa9b1cebdca72abfa6119940c
+DIST speech-dispatcher-0.12.1.tar.gz 7483246 BLAKE2B b57babdbc5058a495eaab5059feaaa1d2f1cbc848bc4a1fa6ce0012cbfa9cc42002fc208a3ddba85f02b60b9811ad5a9de5fc9472433359210d097f5834082c9 SHA512 f386bb25d80e85153db4907c5adece519a86084676a39f958a4f56e53bb957cb9b1232c4e648e73ef8dc5d1ab8e0cd64a5e0d151775fdd8f3b175f47f4864422
diff --git a/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher-0.12.1.ebuild b/app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher/speech-dispatcher-0.12.1.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..13} )
+inherit python-r1 systemd
+
+DESCRIPTION="Speech synthesis interface"
+HOMEPAGE="https://freebsoft.org/speechd"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/brailcom/speechd/releases/download/${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="alsa ao +espeak flite nas pulseaudio pipewire +python systemd"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
+
+DEPEND="python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
+	>=dev-libs/dotconf-1.3
+	>=dev-libs/glib-2.36:2
+	>=media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.2
+	alsa? ( media-libs/alsa-lib )
+	ao? ( media-libs/libao )
+	espeak? ( app-accessibility/espeak-ng )
+	flite? ( app-accessibility/flite )
+	nas? ( media-libs/nas )
+	pulseaudio? ( media-libs/libpulse )
+	pipewire? ( media-video/pipewire )
+	systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd:= )
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
+	python? ( dev-python/pyxdg[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )"
+BDEPEND="
+	sys-apps/help2man
+	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.19.8
+	virtual/pkgconfig"
+
+src_configure() {
+	# bug 573732
+	export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES="${WORKDIR}"
+
+	local myeconfargs=(
+		--disable-ltdl
+		--disable-python
+		--disable-static
+		--with-baratinoo=no
+		--with-ibmtts=no
+		--with-kali=no
+		--with-pico=no
+		--with-voxin=no
+		--with-espeak=no
+		$(use_with alsa)
+		$(use_with ao libao)
+		$(use_with espeak espeak-ng)
+		$(use_with flite)
+		$(use_with nas)
+		$(use_with pulseaudio pulse)
+		$(use_with pipewire)
+		# Technically we should always install these under the "small files" QA
+		# rule. But upstream uses presence of the user unit dir to define
+		# USE_LIBSYSTEMD and link in code which consumes systemd/sd-daemon.h,
+		# and the corresponding *user* files have a hard dependency on that
+		# code. There is no standalone --with-systemd.
+		"$(use_with systemd systemdsystemunitdir "$(systemd_get_systemunitdir)")"
+		"$(use_with systemd systemduserunitdir "$(systemd_get_userunitdir)")"
+	)
+	econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	use python && python_copy_sources
+
+	emake
+
+	if use python; then
+		building() {
+			cd src/api/python || die
+			emake \
+				pyexecdir="$(python_get_sitedir)" \
+				pythondir="$(python_get_sitedir)"
+		}
+		python_foreach_impl run_in_build_dir building
+	fi
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+
+	if use python; then
+		installation() {
+			cd src/api/python || die
+			emake \
+				DESTDIR="${D}" \
+				pyexecdir="$(python_get_sitedir)" \
+				pythondir="$(python_get_sitedir)" \
+				install
+		}
+		python_foreach_impl run_in_build_dir installation
+		python_replicate_script "${ED}"/usr/bin/spd-conf
+		python_foreach_impl python_optimize
+	fi
+
+	find "${D}" -name '*.la' -type f -delete || die
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	local editconfig="n"
+	if ! use espeak; then
+		ewarn "You have disabled espeak-ng, which is speech-dispatcher's"
+		ewarn "default speech synthesizer."
+		ewarn
+		editconfig="y"
+	fi
+	if ! use pulseaudio; then
+		ewarn "You have disabled pulseaudio support."
+		ewarn "pulseaudio is speech-dispatcher's default audio subsystem."
+		ewarn
+		editconfig="y"
+	fi
+	if [[ "${editconfig}" == "y" ]]; then
+		ewarn "You must edit ${EROOT}/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf"
+		ewarn "and make sure the settings there match your system."
+		ewarn
+	fi
+}