diff --git a/app-accessibility/espeak-ng/Manifest b/app-accessibility/espeak-ng/Manifest
index 2ad964c00ade8..d2c8e01c8763b 100644
--- a/app-accessibility/espeak-ng/Manifest
+++ b/app-accessibility/espeak-ng/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST espeak-ng-1.51.tar.gz 14260788 BLAKE2B 230e8860247bdd44a26ba7281fadb7486e7fff90de229c71fb883693badfc141d5ad883769d6cead150f43560a5c47152cada4fcb5a28c0b0384dacaad2c9d09 SHA512 6c29275706d21de2d5fa393702d2f173fc05d2ce4e2f46f3bf9a2742b0a8f294177663df0d079188e31cc2541f2c21a64e09e8afffe95befab667a4d00429fd2
 DIST espeak-ng-1.52.0.tar.gz 17739803 BLAKE2B ee522a44e0653d5154eefdb1533019d3e78e5af93a08ff97f64680e00f4ddeaa499f0214c82b2d43305e76cfc181011b0224f16b7ebdfcc1523496ef23af00d6 SHA512 28793503f2be00505c3fe1dada8197a4e2d3af0d143e31ef883130fe2685d048ae9dee8efab637cdbe972461d95e210d2277b8e8fed4ae580d0cca8b505b0662
diff --git a/app-accessibility/espeak-ng/espeak-ng-1.51.ebuild b/app-accessibility/espeak-ng/espeak-ng-1.51.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 94ffd0226c637..0000000000000
--- a/app-accessibility/espeak-ng/espeak-ng-1.51.ebuild
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@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-inherit autotools
-
-DESCRIPTION="Software speech synthesizer for English, and some other languages"
-HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-3+ unicode"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc x86"
-IUSE="+async +klatt l10n_ru l10n_zh man mbrola +sound"
-
-DEPEND="
-	mbrola? ( app-accessibility/mbrola )
-	sound? ( media-libs/pcaudiolib )
-"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
-	!app-accessibility/espeak
-	sound? ( media-sound/sox )
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	virtual/pkgconfig
-	man? ( app-text/ronn-ng )
-"
-
-DOCS=( CHANGELOG.md README.md docs )
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-
-	# disable failing tests
-	rm tests/{language-pronunciation,translate}.test || die
-	sed -i \
-		-e "/language-pronunciation.check/d" \
-		-e "/translate.check/d" \
-		Makefile.am || die
-
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	local econf_args
-
-	# https://bugs.gentoo.org/836646
-	export PULSE_SERVER=""
-
-	econf_args=(
-		$(use_with async)
-		$(use_with klatt)
-		$(use_with l10n_ru extdict-ru)
-		$(use_with l10n_zh extdict-cmn)
-		$(use_with l10n_zh extdict-yue)
-		$(use_with mbrola)
-		$(use_with sound pcaudiolib)
-		--without-libfuzzer
-		--without-speechplayer
-		--without-sonic
-		--disable-rpath
-		--disable-static
-	)
-	econf "${econf_args[@]}"
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	emake
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# bug #947014
-	emake check -j1
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" VIMDIR=/usr/share/vim/vimfiles install -j1
-	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete  || die
-}