diff --git a/srcpkgs/arcan/patches/cmake-espeak-ng.patch b/srcpkgs/arcan/patches/cmake-espeak-ng.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c2ef22fd9d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/arcan/patches/cmake-espeak-ng.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff --git a/src/platform/cmake/modules/FindEspeak.cmake b/src/platform/cmake/modules/FindEspeak.cmake
+index 6815e874..a548a232 100644
+--- a/src/platform/cmake/modules/FindEspeak.cmake
++++ b/src/platform/cmake/modules/FindEspeak.cmake
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+-FIND_PATH( ESPEAK_INCLUDE_DIR espeak/speak_lib.h  )
+-FIND_LIBRARY(ESPEAK_LIBRARIES NAMES espeak )
++FIND_PATH( ESPEAK_INCLUDE_DIR espeak/speak_lib.h)
++FIND_LIBRARY(ESPEAK_LIBRARIES NAMES espeak espeak-ng)
+ 
+ IF( ESPEAK_LIBRARIES )
+ 	SET( ESPEAK_FOUND TRUE )
diff --git a/srcpkgs/arcan/template b/srcpkgs/arcan/template
index 9c891aa8238..60db46d2acd 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/arcan/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/arcan/template
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ hostmakedepends="pkg-config
 makedepends="MesaLib-devel ffmpeg-devel file-devel freetype-devel liblzma-devel
  libopenal-devel libusb-devel libvncserver-devel libxkbcommon-devel sqlite-devel
  vlc-devel
- $(vopt_if tts 'libespeak-devel')
+ $(vopt_if tts 'libespeak-ng-devel')
  $(vopt_if luajit 'LuaJIT-devel' 'lua51-devel')
  $(vopt_if tesseract 'tesseract-ocr-devel leptonica-devel')
  $(vopt_if wayland 'wayland-devel wayland-protocols libxcb-devel xcb-util-wm-devel')