diff --git a/dev-qt/qtspeech/Manifest b/dev-qt/qtspeech/Manifest
index bb31c5007e2d9..a22b1464bee5a 100644
--- a/dev-qt/qtspeech/Manifest
+++ b/dev-qt/qtspeech/Manifest
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 DIST qtspeech-5.15.17-gentoo-kde-1.tar.xz 1044 BLAKE2B d08c9ae3e321ee91d912772f8a3a34afd2e3692af4684a1851c044d8ad3e2a0a32d68ffeb70ed9a2cb32766917aedc9ec1d4f3da23e5ecbcda150b0978f1ee33 SHA512 c37a38339f04059b5011ea2d595293960e00548f9ffcc627b58cadf22b88d30355241d100ca68492a4d3e9306782ca95de6502f83ea69472f2a442940c48602d
 DIST qtspeech-everywhere-opensource-src-5.15.17.tar.xz 97804 BLAKE2B 7307963b842d685661adfd2fac4b2bfb23950ce12adf6900a94624c59f0b8defdfb6c5ae15d34226b519dfcdccac19a93fffae0194f0f5c5571749e565cae9ca SHA512 4ff8afb0a18cb0290ed34e1057060455a26afea087d37597e54048f2672e5642727652af0a03bef29f8788d85e2a8ea95462d520d3b9b4787af900fd6903eab2
-DIST qtspeech-everywhere-src-6.8.3.tar.xz 264416 BLAKE2B 1f6fbf305ebe05098caa75eb285e29b8c3b525856b8cb8de69cba76bdaa99ae7baf50e5650d950ecee4a1ae20a8de5bf8a279aeb3a074edaeec492c124b8de81 SHA512 6434ccf743604bf4ac4bc31b26c7dbc7f765ec95174f0d9047bec822292f85e6b21ace825b52ce60bd388d9c333d427b206209f78c612782701567bb7d271e6d
 DIST qtspeech-everywhere-src-6.9.1.tar.xz 262724 BLAKE2B a812ec34fb40d2d46d94f5d2d15113c25762982e78cbf35cd5f7bb0416a8859013a6715ac753c861d0b52caa01f1879f8a15502d28fa009a3c62e5a408f4a2a3 SHA512 6384208edb5e1350ff8119a8c4e79101a41c605b8c77220db04a683602a996c582516b2cd31d36c72821b5628e4255fe88c80c5976979d49d73461a4b1fcecd4
diff --git a/dev-qt/qtspeech/qtspeech-6.8.3.ebuild b/dev-qt/qtspeech/qtspeech-6.8.3.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 779e28b0f20a0..0000000000000
--- a/dev-qt/qtspeech/qtspeech-6.8.3.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2023-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-# tests are kind of flaky, sometimes hang, and also fail with clang
-# (not that it's unusable with clang) -- may be worth revisiting
-# eventually given qtspeech is still somewhat new (added in 6.4.0)
-QT6_RESTRICT_TESTS=1
-
-inherit qt6-build
-
-DESCRIPTION="Text-to-speech library for the Qt6 framework"
-
-if [[ ${QT6_BUILD_TYPE} == release ]]; then
-	KEYWORDS="amd64 arm arm64 ~loong ppc ppc64 ~riscv x86"
-fi
-
-IUSE="flite qml +speechd"
-# can build with neither, but then it is just mock tts and may be confusing
-REQUIRED_USE="|| ( flite speechd )"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	~dev-qt/qtbase-${PV}:6
-	~dev-qt/qtmultimedia-${PV}:6
-	flite? ( app-accessibility/flite )
-	qml? ( ~dev-qt/qtdeclarative-${PV}:6 )
-	speechd? ( app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher )
-"
-DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
-
-src_configure() {
-	local mycmakeargs=(
-		$(cmake_use_find_package qml Qt6Qml)
-		$(qt_feature flite)
-		$(qt_feature speechd)
-
-		# flite_alsa was likely to work around old issues in flite, it does
-		# nothing but add -lasound (no code change, and is unneeded)
-		-DQT_FEATURE_flite_alsa=OFF
-	)
-
-	qt6-build_src_configure
-}