diff --git a/package/speechd/speechd.hash b/package/speechd/speechd.hash
index 0b02a35792..a16134deb6 100644
--- a/package/speechd/speechd.hash
+++ b/package/speechd/speechd.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Locally calculated
-sha256  cc4b388fce40681eaff3545e9cc0642216c13c420d5676a4d28c957ddcb916de  speechd-0.11.5.tar.gz
+sha256  32a730f6fb5981b9bec7e04f3674fd7d29e54935f46cf6354dbb9ab1f9b23b2d  speechd-0.12.1.tar.gz
 sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING.GPL-2
 sha256  8ceb4b9ee5adedde47b31e975c1d90c73ad27b6b165a1dcd80c7c545eb65b903  COPYING.GPL-3
 sha256  dc626520dcd53a22f727af3ee42c770e56c97a64fe3adb063799d8ab032fe551  COPYING.LGPL
diff --git a/package/speechd/speechd.mk b/package/speechd/speechd.mk
index 669bec0634..5bb40bb570 100644
--- a/package/speechd/speechd.mk
+++ b/package/speechd/speechd.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SPEECHD_VERSION = 0.11.5
+SPEECHD_VERSION = 0.12.1
 SPEECHD_SITE = $(call github,brailcom,speechd,$(SPEECHD_VERSION))
 SPEECHD_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+, GPL-3.0+ (buildsystem), LGPL-2.1+
 SPEECHD_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING.GPL-2 COPYING.GPL-3 COPYING.LGPL
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ SPEECHD_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--without-voxin \
 	--without-ivona \
 	--without-pico \
+	--without-pipewire \
 	--without-baratinoo \
 	--without-kali \
 	--without-pulse \